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 ... 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 ...
“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 ...
In “Weegee’s Secrets of Shooting with Photoflash,” a 1953 instruction manual for hobbyists and would-be professionals, the famed photojournalist Arthur Fellig offers this piece of advice ...