By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer occupies an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody.

Thames & Hudson has just released Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, a comprehensive new book offering the first full evaluation of the legendary photographer’s work. Edited by Clément Chéroux ...

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

A show at the International Center of Photography focuses on Usher Fellig, aka Weegee, featuring the pictures of crime scenes and car crashes that made him famous as well as less sensational human ...

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 ...

"My name is Weegee. I am the best photographer in the world." He was convinced that he should present himself in a grand way, but in this self-assurance, there were two suspicions: perhaps it wasn ...

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 ...

On the cover of Weegee: Society of the Spectacle are two self-portraits of this enigmatic, larger-than-life photographer. In the first, resembling a felon’s mugshot, Weegee gives a hard stare ...

A Chicago Cocktail Institution Will Have New Owners on St. Patrick’s Day Weegee’s Lounge in Logan Square sparked a beverage renaissance ...

Murder was his business Alum Christopher Bonanos' new book explores the life and work of news photographer Weegee, who captured the crime-ridden underbelly of New York City between the wars ...

‘ Weegee: Society of the Spectacle’ International Center for Photography, 84 Ludlow Street, New York, NY Through May 5, 2025 The groundbreaking street photographer of the 1930s and 1940s, Arthur ...

A rare and unusual portrait of two icons: Weegee and Andy Warhol. Weegee was an Austrian-born American street photographer known for his often gruesome black-and-white images documenting murder and ...