Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images Weegee was the greatest crime scene photographer in NYC history. Not only that, but he was film director Stanley Kubrick’s ...

That these two images are taken by the same photographer hints at the paradox of Weegee’s work ... blood-stained crime scenes, fatal accidents and fires—and his reputation as a savvy ...

By Arthur Lubow How did the photographer ... Many of Weegee’s most powerful pictures focus on spectators. Although famously quick to arrive at the scene of the disaster (a police radio tipped ...

Five decades ago, he had not been able to Google that name, but in 2019 he quickly discovered that Arthur Fellig was the given name of Weegee, the legendary crime-and-mayhem photographer of mid ...

Thames & Hudson has just released Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, a comprehensive new book offering the first full ...

"My name is Weegee. I am the best photographer in the world ... two-seater car and arranged everything he needed for major crime scenes: rubber boots, coat, salami, many socks, a typewriter ...

He worked as a photographer’s assistant ... ability to show up at accidents and crime scenes before anyone else, he was soon known by another name: Weegee. (Having a police radio in his car ...

[Stanley Kubrick’s little-known life as a still photographer] This was the 1940s, and Weegee was famous. People were turned on by his voyeuristic, first-to-the-scene crime photographs ...

He was famed for his uncanny ability to arrive before police or ambulance crews at the gruesome scenes ... of Photography/Getty Images Weegee’s pictures transcend the lurid genre of crime ...

“Their First Murder”, a Weegee masterpiece taken at a Brooklyn ... way to account for his knack for beating the police to a crime scene. His real trade secrets were a shortwave radio, a ...

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 ...