The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, ...
The photographs of Arthur Fellig, still enthrall like timeless, hardboiled detective stories -- 70 or so years after they were taken. A glimpse of Weegee's seedy, fast-paced universe is on view at the ...
Arthur Fellig earned his nickname “Weegee” because of an unnerving ability to arrive at crime scenes before police did. It was as if he used a Ouija board as well as a camera to do his job. That job ...
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.
In one particular photo at the exhibition Weegee: Murder Is My Business (at the International Center for Photography through Sept. 2), one can see all that made the pioneering photojournalist an ...
- Strangelove's Weegee / Zhang Yaxin: Model Operas. Presentation House Gallery. Opening reception tonight at 7 p.m. For more information on the exhibit visit presentationhousegallery.org. THE unlikely ...
A loner and an outlier, Weegee took news snaps of people on the margins – which went on to influence photographers after his death. A new reissue of his classic photobook Naked City reveals the ...
In 1970, an artist named David Young bought a box of 1930s news photos at a secondhand store in Philadelphia. He just liked the look of them, he says now, and he stuck a couple on the wall of his ...
Weegee danced and screamed to get the beach crowd's attention. The masked man called himself the Spider. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) / International Centre of Photography / Getty Images At 70 years old and ...
Weegee remains one of the few photographers in history to achieve simultaneous success in both the popular news media and the arts community. His achievement depended upon providing access to the ...
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