In 2012 Bonanos, a photographer himself, caught a Weegee retrospective at the ICP. By 2015, he was heading to the ICP on Saturdays to sift through the Weegee archive—which didn't, however, contain the ...

Weegee’s first photographic employer, Acme Newspictures, wouldn’t send him out during the day unless he wore a white shirt and tie, so he began taking to the streets at night, ...

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 ...

A loner and an outlier, Weegee took photos of people on the margins of New York society. A new reissue of his photobook Naked City reveals the extraordinary power of his images.

In the book’s closing pages, Bonanos attempts to nudge Weegee’s work into the halls of high art: Diane Arbus loved him, major museums exhibited him, future photographers were inspired by him.

• Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, International Center of Photography, New York, 23 January-5 May. Exhibitions Weegee Photography International Center of Photography. Share. Subscribe to The Art ...

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 ...

What makes Weegee: Society of the Spectacle particularly compelling is its ability to reframe the photographer’s legacy. Often reduced to his crime-scene photography, Weegee’s work was much ...

Fires & Faces. Weegee does a better than ordinary job with the run-of-the-mine stuff—bodies crumpled on the pavement, flames licking a tenement roof, skirts swirling in the wind—but people and ...

Notorious photographer Weegee and Stanley Kubrick overlapped over decades — resulting in this striking portrait of actor Peter Bull in “Dr. Strangelove.” ...