Evidence has been uncovered that decades-old street snaps by the famed photographer are still stashed in old files at The ...

The famed twentieth-century photojournalist Weegee was just as fascinated with tragedy—fires, car crashes, murders—as he was ...

Weegee: Society of the Spectacle is the new exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. The ICP owns Weegee’s archive, some 20,000 photographs and negatives and his ...

Weegee, ‘Body of Anthony Izzo, killed by off-duty policeman Eligio Sarro, New York, February 2, 1942.’ Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993. International Center of Photography/Getty Images Yet most ...

A show at the International Center of Photography focuses on Usher Fellig, aka Weegee, featuring the pictures of crime scenes ...

The quickest, most cunning and New Yorkiest of all street photographers, Weegee treated mundane horrors as a form of show business. It’s a truism by now that Instagram (or, before that, TV or the ...

Weegee’s photographic career is a study in contrasts. His early work, created between 1935 and 1945, is marked by sensational images of gangsters, murder scenes, fires and tragic accidents.

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 ...