Weegee remains one of the few photographers in history to achieve simultaneous success in both the popular news media and the arts community. His achievement depended upon providing access to the ...

Back in the 1970s, David Young bought a box of 73 vintage news photographs at a Philadelphia second-hand store. This year, he pulled them out of the kitchen cabinet of his Seattle home, where they ...

Weegee is home. Born in 1899 in Zolochiv, a town in the east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Usher Fellig had his Jewish first name Anglicized to Arthur when he passed through Ellis Island in the ...

In this classic Weegee photograph, a crowd gathers around the body of a man killed in a melee on Mulberry Street in New York City on Sept. 21, 1939 (AP Images). One of the great aesthetic and moral ...

Weegee (Arthur Fellig), “Charles Sodokoff and Arthur Webber Use Their Top Hats to Hide Their Faces” (1942) (via MoMA.org) Aestheticians and artists have long claimed that symmetry is the very essence ...

Mark Athitakis is a writer in Phoenix and author of “The New Midwest.” Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph. A dead ...

Weegee was no flash in the pan. Fifty years after his death, the man born Usher Fellig remains the quintessential New York tabloid photographer. Weegee captured some of the most iconic shots of New ...

Any halfway serious film buff can name an array of films that take place in New York City, from Taxi Driver to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, from Manhattan to Splash, and from West Side Story to Midnight ...

40.6 x 32.1 cm. (16 x 12.6 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Ascher Fellig was born in what is now Ukraine in 1899 and moved with his family to New York in 1909, where he changed his name to Arthur. He worked as a photographer’s assistant and darkroom ...

For an intense decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee (1899-1968) was one of the most relentlessly inventive figures in American photography. His graphically dramatic and often lurid photographs of New ...

12 x 9 1/4in. (30.5 x 23.5cm.) 8 1/8 x 7 3/8in. (15.5 x 18.7cm.) sheet: 14 x 11in. (35.5 x 28cm.) 10 x 8in. (25.3 x 20.2cm.) ...