New York's International Center of Photography has a great retrospective of Weegee’s photography on view right now.
By John Otis Arthur Fellig, the prolific photographer and incidental social critic better known as Weegee, was highly regarded for his gritty street tableaus. He began working as a freelance news ...
“Their First Murder”, a Weegee masterpiece taken at a Brooklyn intersection in 1941, includes a couple of adults, too, faces contorted in disgust and grief at the daylight ambush. But the ...
I’m always up for Weegee. That’s Arthur Fellig (1899–1968), the brewed-in-bitters photojournalist whose snaps of slugged gangsters and crashed cars showed us what’s always to be found ...