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 ...

Back in the 1970s, David Young bought a box of 73 vintage news photographs at a Philadelphia second-hand store. This year, he pulled them out of the kitchen cabinet of his Seattle home, where they ...

FLASH: The Making of Weegee the Famous, by Christopher Bonanos. Henry Holt, 379 pp., $32. Even if you don’t recognize the name Arthur Fellig, you know his work. Better known as Weegee, the seminal ...

The International Center of Photography (ICP) holds more than 20,000 images by the legendary New York City press photographer, Weegee. Weegee, whose real name was Arthur Felig, was a New York City ...

Weegee, who dramatically shaped America’s perception of the crime scene, only really started working as a professional photojournalist when he was close to 40. I mention this not only to make all us ...

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Weegee, Untitled (Portrait of a Transvestite Robber), c. 1940. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm). Stamped. Candid image of a transvestite portrayed in a somewhat embarrassing ...

Nineteen-thirties New York was a newspaper photographer’s dream. It was the golden age of Murder Inc., a gang of Jewish hitmen, and small-time wiseguys and would-be stool pigeons were getting popped ...

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

In 1963, Arthur Fellig, the photographer known as Weegee, was past the peak of his career. He had been the most famous press photographer alive in the 1940s, especially after he published his ...