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 ...

Weegee Despite the predatory techniques, he was a genuine photo-populist, a “paparazzo of the nameless”, in the critic Max Kozloff’s phrase. He held squares of crumpled plastic in front of ...