Foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, and potato salad have become menu essentials at Independence Day cookouts across the country ...

In “Constellation,” the photographer’s largest-ever show in New York, images linger in the strange space between intention and effect.

Bonano’s revelatory portrait of “Weegee the Famous” will interest general readers, as well as those with a special interest in photojournalism. 65 b&w photos. (June) DETAILS share BUY THIS ...

Weegee: Society of the Spectacle at the International Center of Photography (ICP) will attempt to unravel that paradox with a fresh reading of the man, born in 1899 by the name of Ascher Fellig in ...

Famous for his early career as a nighttime news photographer — shooting grisly images of fires, murders, and other tragedies in high contrast — Weegee allegedly earned his name for his uncanny ...

Transforming famous faces into grotesquely pinched and bloated caricatures, from Marilyn Monroe and Chairman Mao—predating Warhol’s well-known silkscreens—to Charlie Chaplin and Salvador ...

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.

Weegee was also one of the first photographers to snap bystanders in the act of witnessing horrific events. He knew that witnesses were as much a part of the story as the main players. Hence one of ...

Twelve years later he was out on his own as Weegee the Famous, a free agent at last. He hunted by night, savouring the city’s desolate streets as he sped to the latest stabbing.

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 ...

Weegee captured people watching events unfold, “whether it’s a fire or a car crash or a murder site”, Campany says. “He’s interested in an image that presents the event as a spectacle.