Abstract

Photography has always been used as the tool to incite the emotions of the individuals. However, this study would focus mainly on the work done by the Weegee, his style and the base of his output. This study would also be focusing on the different aspects of photography and analyze the work of weegee as per the rules of photography and the meanings interpreted as a result of his work.Table of Contents

Abstracti

Introduction1

Lovers with 3-D glasses at the Palace Theatre2

Lovers at the Movies (i)3

Lovers at the Movies (ii)5

Conclusion6

References7

Weegee's Photography

Introduction

Arthur Fellig or falsely known as Weegee was a photographer as well as photojournalist, who is popular for his street photography and stark black photos. He developed his touch among the other photographers and photojournalists by following the emergency services of the New York City at that time (www.colorcubic.com). His works clearly spoke about the urban life including areas such as crime, death and injury. Weegee was a self taught photographer without any formal training of Photography. Weegee used back of his car as his dark room. He did most of his photography using only the basic photography tools which were known at that point of time. The camera, which became a, source for his most known photographs was known as Speed Graphic Camera. By looking at the Weegee's work, it can be observed that he was not very fond of Moral gradations and tonal gradations, as both the aspects seemed to be absent from the work of the weegee (Gurewitsch.p.9).

Weegee mostly worked at night, he mostly worked for the newsprint,therefore, he always had speed graphic with a detachable flash and a large reflector. Although weegee left the world in 1968, yet he is able to live on in the imagination of many photographer's, who still idealizes him. The work done by the weegee is considered by many as one of the very special one's, weegee made his own mark in times of the great competition in the industry by his sheer genius and his eye for the subject. Weegee completely devoted his life for the sake of the photography. He was a typical commercial photographer who roamed on the streets at night in order to grasp such pictures,which would prove, beneficial in selling his works to the audiences which are and will always be there, who have an interest in the life of others (Goldberg,p.50). Weegee worked on his intuitions and always held his view that the photography is not divided on to issues such as artistic, or any sort of financial or ethical issues attached to it. He in short was a photographer which fell into the category of “Papparazi”.

Some of the photographs that we will be looking at include the following: Among the works of Weegee that we will be looking on includes the following:

Lovers with 3-D glasses at the Palace Theatre

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This photographer captured the moment as the couple kissed, they are so much involved in the fact that the man doesn't even took his 3-D glasses off. The photograph ...