“When most of Manhattan is sound asleep, the free-lance photographer Arthur Fellig (1899 – 1968) – better known as Weegee – begins his wide-awake work of catching the city’s nocturnal drama. Weegee sleeps by day and at midnight sets out to cruse the city in his car, equipped with [a] police radio and bought with the proceeds from crime photos. He earned his nickname through his uncanny Ouija Board ability to know about distant happenings and beat others to the scene. With radio going full blastand his camera close to hand on the seat beside him. Weegee is ever on the alert for such scenes as those shown on these pages. Others he gets by chasing down police radio calls, often arriving at the trouble spot before the cops.”
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