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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...