'weegee- a.k.a. arthur felling...'
'...felling won the nickname 'weegee' from new york homicide detectives, because he was always on a crime scene before the other news photogrophers, and occasionally the police themselves. they joked that he must be using a ouji board to get scoops from the spirit world.'
i just finished reading a book called 'illustrated true crime: a photographic record'
and boy, was it ever photographic. some of those pictures are going to haunt me longer than what i saw at my recent viewing of 'texas chainsaw massacre-the beginning.' (the movie wasn't scary, just gory as fuck. i had to take a break to have a cigarette before continuing to watch the mindless dismemberment of a few unlucky individuals at the hands of leatherface)
anyway, weegee was a successful crime photographer in the 40s. most photo journalists could only get pictures of the dead bodies after the police had covered them with the white sheet. or they only got photos of the chalk outlines and blood stains. not weegee, he got the full deal. and newspapers actually printed these horrific pictures.
this book was mesmerizing. but, that might be because my childhood was spent listening to stories my dad told me and watching crime television with him, instead of dawson's creek. if you don't enjoy graphic pictures of dead people or stories about deadly murders, i wouldn't recommend it.
ask me anything about crime between 1864 and 2000, and i will be able to answer your questions sans difficulty.
oh, and by the way, weegee was not some wizard who talked to dead people about future murders. he lived in a van and listened, illegally, to a police line on his radio. he would drive to the crime scene as quick as possible and shoot.
i just finished reading a book called 'illustrated true crime: a photographic record'
and boy, was it ever photographic. some of those pictures are going to haunt me longer than what i saw at my recent viewing of 'texas chainsaw massacre-the beginning.' (the movie wasn't scary, just gory as fuck. i had to take a break to have a cigarette before continuing to watch the mindless dismemberment of a few unlucky individuals at the hands of leatherface)
anyway, weegee was a successful crime photographer in the 40s. most photo journalists could only get pictures of the dead bodies after the police had covered them with the white sheet. or they only got photos of the chalk outlines and blood stains. not weegee, he got the full deal. and newspapers actually printed these horrific pictures.
this book was mesmerizing. but, that might be because my childhood was spent listening to stories my dad told me and watching crime television with him, instead of dawson's creek. if you don't enjoy graphic pictures of dead people or stories about deadly murders, i wouldn't recommend it.
ask me anything about crime between 1864 and 2000, and i will be able to answer your questions sans difficulty.
oh, and by the way, weegee was not some wizard who talked to dead people about future murders. he lived in a van and listened, illegally, to a police line on his radio. he would drive to the crime scene as quick as possible and shoot.
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