Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
Weegee. Murder Is My Business
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia
May 3 – July 14, 2013
Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were, for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968), the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such graphically dramatic and sometimes sensationalistic photographs of New York crimes and news events set the standard for what has since become known as tabloid journalism. In fact, for one intense decade, between 1935 and 1946, Weegee was perhaps the most relentlessly inventive figure in American photography.