By John Otis Arthur Fellig, the prolific photographer and incidental social critic better known as Weegee, was highly regarded for his gritty street tableaus. He began working as a freelance news ...

Another girl cranes her head over with morbid curiosity, straining to see. Only an older woman is properly affected by the tragedy, her face in a rictus of horror. Weegee manages to capture a complex ...

Weegee is home. Born in 1899 in Zolochiv ... 1936); he lies on the sidewalk with his head in a pool of blood, his hat and a revolver beside him. There are pictures of horrible car disasters ...

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 ...

“Their First Murder”, a Weegee masterpiece taken at a Brooklyn intersection in 1941, includes a couple of adults, too, faces contorted in disgust and grief at the daylight ambush. But the ...