He died in 1968, known internationally as Weegee the Famous, and when Wilma Wilcox, his longtime companion, died in 1993, she left roughly 19,000 prints, 6,000 negatives, reels of film ...

This was the 1940s, and Weegee was famous. People were turned on by his voyeuristic, first-to-the-scene crime photographs, each one like a dirty martini, flooding the brain with its chilling mix ...

In the book’s closing pages, Bonanos attempts to nudge Weegee’s work into the halls of high art: Diane Arbus loved him, major museums exhibited him, future photographers were inspired by him.

The Weegee that’s surveyed in this entertaining exhibit is not only the man, an immigrant born Usher Fellig in Austria, but also the myth, who described himself as both “Weegee the Famous ...

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) ...

Weegee the Famous became one of the first name-recognized press photographers, publishing a book of his images in 1945 called Naked City. He wasn't the only cigar-chomping, fast-quipping hustler in a ...

Weegee, "Marilyn Monroe distortion" (c. 1962) ... Famous for his early career as a nighttime news photographer — shooting grisly images of fires, murders, ...

It’s easy to feel conflicted about "Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous" by Christopher Bonanos (Henry Holt, 319 pp., ★★★ out of four). It’s a biography that stirs up so many feelings ...

An immigrant from Ukraine, Weegee was most famous for his photographs of crime scenes in New York in the 1930s and ’40s. Although he claimed that his nickname, Weegee, ...