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Image[edit]

This article uses the image of a book cover, whose design is presumably copyrighted by its publisher, merely in order to show a photograph. I don't think that this is fair use. Comments? -- Hoary 07:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For a source on the opera opening the site below tells the whole story. It was indeed a setup. http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/

Here's a direct link to the page that explains the setup: http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/weegee09.html -- 66.38.55.135 02:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above link is dead. I just came to this talk page because of another similar dead link at footnote 23. I don't know how to correct this, but here is the correct URL for 23: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/collections/weegee-archive-selections. There are over 500 pictures in the archive and I had some trouble getting the individual, in this case Marilyn Monroe's picture, to come up so I could get the exact title, but it's the second picture in the archive, so it's right there along with others at the top of the page. As you can see the correction for the above link begins with the dropping of the word museum in museum.icp.org. It is now just icp.org. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful right now. Good Luck! Jgmccue (talk) 22:17, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

External links[edit]

Summermute (talk) 09:31, 1 October 2008 (UTC) I think this can be a good link to add:[reply]

Weegee Collection, Amber Online (42 weegee photographs given to Amber by Weegee's widow Wilma Wilcox following Side Gallery's organisation of the first tour of his work in the UK in the early 1980s). Very good image quality.

Weegee´s Manhattan , New York Times (a gallery with 12 weegee photographs with titles, date, and long captions)

One important thing is that we can't link to sites that host copyright violations. Are the sites licenses or allowed to show his work? rootology (C)(T) 14:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the New York Times doesn't seem real likely to be violating copyright. And Amber appears to be claiming ownership of the images as a gift of the widow. They don't appear (to me) to be a bogus org. -- Mwanner | Talk 17:05, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I meant the Amber one, not the NYT. :) Looking again, yeah, I'd say go for it. I actually saw a fantastic Weegee book the other day at Border's (I forget the title), but the $80 price tag scared me off. It seemed to have a very decent amount of bio material on him. I'd love to build this one... rootology (C)(T) 17:09, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation[edit]

This page needs some further disambiguation.

Weegee is the name of a modern art gallery in Espoo (Helsinki), Finland as well as an alternative spelling of "weegie", Scottish slang for a Glaswegian, i.e. a native of Glasgow (the term is generally used by non-Glaswegians and may be regarded as offensive by some people from Glasgow).

The article header now points to Weegee (disambiguation) which should help. Thanks for the pointer about the museum. 18:24, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

His name[edit]

His name was derived from the ouija board, as he had the uncanny ability to arrive on a crime scene before the police. Actually his magic was thus: he was the first civilian to use a police radio, what we would think of today as a police/fire scanner. As his car was his office, it was probably in his car. Maybe he had two: one for his spartan room, one for his car.

"Nicknamed after the Ouija board game, Weegee seemed to materialize wherever news was happening." (Getty museum website)
"In 1937 Weegee bought a car, received a press card and was granted a short-wave police radio. Weegee was the only person in New York outside of the police force who was given access to their radio frequency." (Veredart)

--John Bessa (talk) 15:00, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

At the ICP exhibit showing now, it says his nickname came from his job developing photos, where he was known as a "squeegee" boy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.84.118 (talk) 21:09, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Strangelove[edit]

I believe I've heard Peter Sellers himself talk about borrowing Strangelove's accent from Weegee, and that the interview is included in the special features to the film's DVD. I'll check, but I'm not sure how best to footnote something like that....PurpleChez (talk) 19:45, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My edits[edit]

I did these edits. If you have anything to say about them, please do so on my talk page. --I dream of horses (T) @ 18:09, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why I havent semiprotected this page[edit]

Because I remember an IP editor making some constructive edits a while back. This article is fairly low traffic, so I dont really see teh Weegee vandalism as a serious problem here. However if anyone else disagrees I think the vandalism would likely be considered to be frequent enough to deserve semi protection. —Soap— 02:14, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture[edit]

not sure whether it would be worth adding something on popular culture, Weegee was the iconic ambulance chasing crime scene photographer, and vaguely similar characters appear in Road to Perdition (Jude Law) and more recently Nightcrawler (Jake Gyllenhaal), though they are certainly not much like Weegee. Tallmanbaby (talk) 08:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Characters who are "vaguely similar" to Weegee are not going to be acceptable in a popcult section - it would have to be actual appearance of a character named "Weegee" or "Arthur Fellig" who is a crime photographer. The exceptions would be if a character is strongly similar and the author or filmmaker explicitly says that the character was based on Weegee, or an extremely reliable source says the same. Anything less than that will almost certainly be rejected. BMK (talk) 08:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Legacy[edit]

This lead para: 'Weegee can be seen as the American counterpart to Brassaï, who photographed Paris street scenes at night. Weegee's themes of nudists, circus performers, freaks and street people were later taken up and developed by Diane Arbus in the early 1960s.[4]' seems whollly unsupported and unsupportable; it is unsupported opinion. Weegee's and Brassaî's work in my opinion have very different motives and they experssed very different attitudes and allegiances. There is little of the 'bohemian' about Weegee. Siniarly Arbus's work, while focusing on similiar sectors of the demi-monde or other sigmatized parts of the population, have been photographed by many photographers in many countries over the years. This seems like unmotivated celebrity naming. Weegee doesn't need it, and Arbus doesn't either.

I suggest removing it. Actio (talk) 00:00, 25 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Name Origin[edit]

He himself explains in his own words in this video: https://youtu .be/pZJnWulrQac?t=911 Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker (talk) 17:44, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WeeGee got referred in The Little Things (2021 film)[edit]

Please mention in popular culture section of WeeGee that he got referred in The Little Things (2021 film). I can only find his name in online transcripts of the film but not any website to cite Rizosome (talk) 05:03, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Date of the photograph[edit]

ICP, the photo's source, gives the date of the photo as c. 1994. See [1]. As the IP noted, the date given by Getty Images is July 27, 1945. —chaetodipus (talk) 06:15, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]