The groundbreaking street photographer of the 1930s and 1940s, Arthur Fellig, also known as Weegee, is best known for his lurid shots of dead gangsters and madding crowds. A new retrospective at the ...
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 ...
“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 ...