Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph. A dead mobster on the sidewalk. Tenement children sleeping on a fire escape.

So Weegee is home, back in the neighborhood where you can still get the pastrami he so loved. ... 1936); he lies on the sidewalk with his head in a pool of blood, his hat and a revolver beside him.

Weegee sold his dramatic shots to any willing buyer, ... The man at the head of this parade, wearing a long jacket and with his arms held out awkwardly, is the center of a busy scene.

‘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 ...

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 ...

Weegee danced and screamed to get the beach crowd's attention. The masked man called himself the Spider. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) / International Centre of Photography / Getty Images At 70 years old ...

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

Naomi Fry on the famed twentieth-century photojournalist Weegee, who took photographs of tragedies—fires, car crashes, murders—and forced viewers to confront their fascination with grim images.