Arthur H. Fellig (Zolochiv, 1899-New York, 1968), known by the pseudonym Weegee, achieved widespread international recognition for his photographs of the underworld and the fringes of New York nightlife in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1948, after moving to Hollywood, he began to photograph Californian high society and the social life of the great film celebrities, whom he portrayed in a way that was almost always markedly ironic or satirical. The exhibition organized by Fundación MAPFRE, whose works are included in this catalog, focuses on this period in which Weegee’s work was not as highly regarded as it deserved to be, with the aim of showing the coherence of his work as a whole.
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