divorced in 1950. Produces first short black and white
filmCocktail Party1950. Returns to New York 1952 and
begins to create his distortions portraits. Publication of
third bookNaked Hollywood1953. First distortions pub-
lished inVogue1955. Diagnosed with diabetes 1957.
Final film consultant role on Kubrick’sDr. Strangelove,
or How I Leaned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb- 1958 to 1968; traveled extensively in Europe lectur-
ing, filming, holding exhibitions, and freelancing in
photography. Lecture tour and several exhibitions in
USSR 1959. Publication of autobiographyWeegee by
Weegee1961. Publication ofWeegee’s Creative Photo-
graphy 1964. Makes final short filmThe Idiot Box1965.
Dies in New York, 26 December 1968.
Individual Exhibitions
1941 Weegee: Murder Is My Business; The Photo League,
New York, New York
1942 Weegee: Murder Is My Business II; The Photo League,
New York, New York
1959 Weegee; Moscow, Soviet Union (travelling exhibition
throughout USSR).
1960 Weegee; Caricatures of the Great; Photokina, Cologne,
West Germany
1962 Weegee; Photokina, Cologne, West Germany
1975 Weegee; Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon,
Arizona
1976 Weegee; Marcus Pfeiffer Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Weegee, the Famous; International Center of Photo-
graphy, New York, New York
1978 Weegee; Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France
1979 Weegee, ‘The famous’;StillsGallery,Edinburgh,Scotland
1980 Weegee, the Famous; Side Gallery, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, England
Weegee; Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York, New York
Weegee; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
1981 Weegee, the Famous; Port Washington Public Library,
Port Washington, New York
1984 Weegee and the Human Comedy; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1985 Two’s Company; Light Gallery, New York, New York
1986 Weegee; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsyl-
vania
1995 Weegee: The Photography of Arthur Fellig; David
Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Rhode Island
1996 Weegee; Artspace Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Weegee’s World: Life, Death and the Human Drama;
International Center of Photography, New York
2000 Weegee: Days and Nights in New York; Museum of
Modern Art, Oxford, England
Weegee: Days and Nights in New York; Magazin 3,
Stockholm, Sweden
Selected Group Exhibitions1943 Action Photography; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1944 Art in Progress; Museum of Modern Art, New York,
New York
1948 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers; Museum of
Modern Art, New York, New York
1962 Photo Group Exhibition; Ligoa Duncan Art Centre,
Paris, France
1967 Photography in the Twentieth Century; National Gal-
lery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (toured USA and
Canada between 1967 and 1973)
1974 News Photography; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
Photography in America; Whitney Museum of Ame-
rican Art, New York, New York
1977 Documenta 6; Kassel, Germany
1977 Tusen och En Bild/1001 Pictures; Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, Sweden
Photographie als Kunst 1879–1979/Kunst als Photo-
graphie 1949–1970; Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck,
Austria, and travelling
1977 Southern California Photography 1900–1965; Los
Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
1982 Floods of Light; The Photographers’ Gallery, London,
England
1983 Weegee/Arbus/Model/Thompson; Haverford College,
Haverford, Pennsylvania
1985 American Images: Photographers 1945–1980; Barbican
Art Gallery, London, England and travelling
1989 On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty
Years of Photography; National Gallery of Art, Wa-
shington D.C. and Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois (and travelled to Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Los Angeles, California)
1996 An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to
Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection;Museumof
Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
The Big City; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts
New York, New York: The City of Ambition; Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, New YorkSelected Works
Simply Add Boiling Water, 1937
Mrs Henrietta Torres and her Daughter Ada Watch as
Another Daughter and her Son Die in Fire, 1939
The Gay Deceiver c., 1939
Crowd at Coney Island, Temperature 89 Degrees...They
Came Early and Stayed Late, 1940
Striking Beauty, 1940
Heat Spell, 1941
Their First Murder, 1941
Anthony Esposito, Accused ‘‘Cop Killer’’, 1941
Coney Island at Noon Saturday, July 5th, 1942
Brooklyn Mattress Factory Burned, 1942
Gunman Killed by Off Duty Cop at 344 Broome St, 1942
The Critic, 1943
Billie Dauschua and Mabel Sidney, Bowery Entertainers, 1944
Invitation to the Dance, 1945
Lovers at the Palace Theater, c. 1945
Hopper’s Topper, c. 1948
Marilyn Monroe (distortion), c. 1960WEEGEE