In the 1930s, Ukrainian émigré Arthur Felig (aka "Weegee" or “Weegee the Famous”) would stay up all night roaming the streets of New York in search of accidents and crimes to photograph. With an ...

Weegee, "Marilyn Monroe distortion" (c. 1962) (all images © International Center of Photography/Getty Images; all images International Center of Photography) There ...

Early on a Sunday morning, about 15 people gathered at the International Center of Photography (ICP) for a walking tour about the life of New York photographer, Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee.

NORFOLK -- Weegee was a character cartoonishly New Yorky. All the night folk knew him -- the guys and dolls on Broadway, the stickup men, the Bowery bums, the homicide detectives. Weegee was the ...

Almost Nothing in Arthur ‘Weegee’ Fellig’s Greatest Photo Happened by Accident“With this picture,” he said, “I matured as a photographer and human being.” ...

Weegee is home. Born in 1899 in Zolochiv, a town in the east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Usher Fellig had his Jewish first name Anglicized to Arthur when he passed through Ellis Island in the ...

Photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, lugged his enormous Speed Graphic camera around the nighttime streets of New York City in the 1930s and ‘40s, cultivating a persona as stark and as ...

The body of a young woman who jumped from a car and was killed lies on the curb covered by newspapers and a sheet as a policeman walks away with his hands behind his back, New York, 1938.

It's easy to feel conflicted about Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos (Henry Holt, 319 pp., ★★★ out of four stars). It's a biography that stirs up so ...

Perhaps you have heard about The Herald Tribune, The Brooklyn Eagle, The New York Telegram, The Evening World, The Journal Tribune. There were several others, but today they are mostly all dead. Many ...

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Arthur Fellig-- Weegee-- documented crime scenes better than any other photographer. While documenting the crime, grit, and complex humanity of midcentury New York City, he lived a life just as worthy ...