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Weegee Under the Cover of Darkness: The Photography of Night Noir


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Weegee was a renowned New York City freelance crime and street photographer who worked like a whirlwind of perpetual motion, running from the mid-1930s into the postwar years. Weegee prowled the streets of New York's Lower East Side non-stop during the graveyard shift.

He took thousands of photographs that defined Manhattan as a film noir nightscape populated with hoodlums and gangsters, Bowery bums and slumming socialites, tenement dwellers and victims of murders, catastrophic fires, domestic brawls and car crashes.

His body of photographic work bestowed an enduring epithet upon New York City: The Naked City.

This article includes starkly powerful vintage photographs, two videos, and an extensive photo-gallery of Weegee's photography.
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1 response // Weegee Under the Cover of Darkness: The Photography of Night Noir

  • It's excellent when history has such proof otherwise it's word of mouth which changes a little with each person who tells it. He took some powerful piictures of the real world in his day. His room and the way he lived looked sad yet real world for him and his times. It's important for independent film makers of today to express our real world, culture and times.I have tried to get a friend of mine to let me or for him to write his life story of his life in Chicago from the early 1930's up. But he hasn't because of fear of lines where he had friends in the outfit. But he wouldn't have the picture evidence in the extent that this does.
    PatriciaMarie

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