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

On the cover of Weegee: Society of the Spectacle are two self-portraits of this enigmatic, larger-than-life photographer. In the first, resembling a felon’s mugshot, Weegee gives a hard stare down the ...

Often, when bars change hands, regular customers may grow anxious that new ownership will change what attracted them to their favorite drinking holes. But, Village Tap owner Jeff Hoffman says he’ll ...

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 ...

The photographer, whose work captured and critiqued our lurid interest in crime, remains grimly relevant Known both for his preternatural ability to show up at the scene of murders, car crashes, fires ...

In “Weegee’s Secrets of Shooting with Photoflash,” a 1953 instruction manual for hobbyists and would-be professionals, the famed photojournalist Arthur Fellig offers this piece of advice: “A news ...

Biplanes, Trains, and Super-Fast Ponies, Zip Codes, Stamps, and Ben Franklin The Vilification of Bernie Goetz, Redux Kick The Bride! Down the Aisle Old Persian Calligraphy Survives in All Its Elegance ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The flashbulb, like a roving spotlight, picks up the glee and awe on the faces of children watching a ...

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 ...

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, ...

“Weegee is an enigma,” writes the French curator Clément Chéroux in the catalogue that accompanies a touring exhibition of the photographer, which opens in New York this month. “He is known for his ...

Eddie Possehl is a dynamic and driven writer/director with a passion for the written word and all things film, television, comics, and games. His passion for storytelling led him to establish his own ...