The groundbreaking street photographer of the 1930s and 1940s, Arthur Fellig, also known as Weegee, is best known for his lurid shots of dead gangsters and madding crowds. A new retrospective at the ...
In the 1930s, Ukrainian émigré Arthur Felig (aka "Weegee" or “Weegee the Famous”) would stay up all night roaming the streets of New York in search of accidents and crimes to photograph.
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 ...
“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 ...