re: #200 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Weegee supposedly got his nickname from his superhuman ability to be at the scene of a crime almost before the cops arrived, as if he had used a Ouija board to foretell the future. (Actually, he had a police radio in his car.) His real name was Usher Felig and he freelanced his photos to almost all of New York City’s newspapers. He used a standard Speed Graphic 4x5 camera and developed his film in the back of his car, enabling him to scoop most of the city’s other photogs.

The International Center for Photography has a collection of his photos here museum.icp.org

Imagine what he could have done with a digital SLR today.