Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous

For this exhibition, forty-eight works have been selected from the recent major acquisition of 240 photographs by Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), the father of New York street photography who was better known as Weegee the Famous. The exhibition will follow his career from 1931 to 1965, when he mixed with the crowds and chronicled their daily dramas. Crime scenes in the thirties, Harlem jazz clubs in the forties, Greenwich Village coffee houses in the fifties, burlesque houses and portraits of the famous-- shot through distorting lenses of his own devising-- defined his work.