Photographer Weegee shot to fame with his shocking pics of New York crime in the 30s.

摄影师维吉以拍摄30年代纽约罪案的骇人照片而声名鹊起。

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In other words, the photographers, alerted by a police scanner, got there first and sold their wares to a willing bidder, just as they have done since Weegee.

换句话说，摄影师惊动了警察的扫描仪，第一个到达那里并把这些资料卖给了有意愿的买家，就像自从Weegee后做的一样。

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An outstanding case in point is the series of stark black-and-white photographs of criminals and crime scenes taken by Weegee in New York during the 1930s and 1940s.

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But long before Weegee (whose real name was Arthur Fellig) pandered to popular prejudices about the differentness of criminals, photography was used by criminologists influenced by crude Darwinian ideas about race, heredity and criminality to try to confirm their assumption that villains were somehow physically distinguishable from law-abiding citizens.

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