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Weegee 

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Comprising approximately seventy photographs from the Getty Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition surveys the news photography of Arthur Fellig (American, born Austria, 1899–1968), who became known in the 1930s as Weegee the Famous. Weegee (after the Ouija board game) seemed to materialize wherever news was happening, covering all aspects of Manhattan nightlife and vividly documenting the police beat. Spanning two decades of Weegee's freelance career, the exhibition is introduced with pictures by pioneering Los Angeles news photographer George Watson and his nephew Coy Watson, Jr.

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Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee