Weegee
Weegee was born Usher Fellig in Zloczew, Austria in 1899. His hometown is now in Poland. His name was changed to Arthur at Ellis Island when he came with his family to live in New York's Lower East Side in 1910. He quit school at age 14 to help support his family, working at odd jobs and as an itinerant street photographer and assistant to a commercial photographer.
Fellig had been a passport photographer for three years when he was hired in 1924, at the age of 25, as a darkroom technician by Acme Newspictures. This company soon became United Press International Photos. …
