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By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer occupies an odd middle ground between the news media and its parody.
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 ...
He went by Weegee — as in ouija — because in the 1930s and '40s, the prescient photographer and his camera were often the first to show up at crime scenes.
(Photo by Weegee/International Center of Photography/Holt) Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph.
Notorious photographer Weegee and Stanley Kubrick overlapped over decades — resulting in this striking portrait of actor Peter Bull in “Dr. Strangelove.” ...
A show at the International Center of Photography focuses on Usher Fellig, aka Weegee, featuring the pictures of crime scenes and car crashes that made him famous as well as less sensational human ...
"My name is Weegee. I am the best photographer in the world." He was convinced that he should present himself in a grand way, but in this self-assurance, there were two suspicions: perhaps it wasn ...
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 ...
Weegee: Society of the Spectacle is the new exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. The ICP owns Weegee’s archive, some 20,000 photographs and negatives and his ...
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 ...
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 ...