Weegee’s first photographic employer, Acme Newspictures, wouldn’t send him out during the day unless he wore a white shirt and tie, so he began taking to the streets at night, ...

The ICP has the entire Weegee archive: 16,000 photographs and 7,000 negatives from many periods of his life, including his groundbreaking book of New York life, Naked City. But he started with murder.

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.