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 ...
The International Center of Photography (ICP) holds more than 20,000 images by the legendary New York City press photographer, Weegee. Weegee, whose real name was Arthur Felig, was a New York City ...
In 1970, an artist named David Young bought a box of 1930s news photos at a secondhand store in Philadelphia. He just liked the look of them, he says now, and he stuck a couple on the wall of his ...
In “Weegee’s Secrets of Shooting with Photoflash,” a 1953 instruction manual for hobbyists and would-be professionals, the famed photojournalist Arthur Fellig offers this piece of advice: “A news ...
The notorious photographer’s career was cratering when he took a gig on the set of ‘Dr. Strangelove’ It seems like it shouldn’t work: Stanley Kubrick, the cerebral perfectionist, working with Weegee, ...
In the 1930s, Ukrainian émigré Arthur Felig (aka "Weegee" or “Weegee the Famous”) would stay up all night roaming the streets of New York in search of accidents and crimes to photograph. With an ...
Evidence has been uncovered that decades-old street snaps by the famed photographer are still stashed in old files at The Times. By John Otis Arthur Fellig, the prolific photographer and incidental ...
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 ...
ICP offers a rare display of his late-career portraits of celebrities alongside the classic New York photos he is celebrated for. How did he go wrong? By Arthur Lubow How did the photographer Arthur ...
From a $17-a-month room across the street from police headquarters, Arthur Fellig keeps a peeping eye on crowded, raucous, uncaring Manhattan. An untidy little man with a bulging stomach and moist ...
The body of a young woman who jumped from a car and was killed lies on the curb covered by newspapers and a sheet as a policeman walks away with his hands behind his back, New York, 1938.
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