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The line came into my head while viewing the photographs in Weegee: Murder is My Business at the International Center of Photography (ICP), where corpse after splayed corpse was flashbulb lit on ...
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 ...
Weegee, "Marilyn Monroe distortion" (c. 1962) (all images © International Center of Photography/Getty Images; all images International Center of Photography) Success ...
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’s shot captures not only his dejected expression ...
I had no idea, in fact, that the two had a seesawing, era-spanning, mutually beautiful thing going until I saw this photograph by Weegee (his real name was Arthur Fellig). Early in his career ...
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 ...
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 ...
With his seemingly supernatural ability to show up at accidents and crime scenes before anyone else, he was soon known by another name: Weegee. (Having a police radio in his car probably helped.) ...
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 ...
Thames & Hudson has just released Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, a comprehensive new book offering the first full ...