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 ...
In one particular photo at the exhibition Weegee: Murder Is My Business (at the International Center for Photography through Sept. 2), one can see all that made the pioneering photojournalist an ...
Press photographer Weegee’s Bowery was a Skid Row of derelicts and drunks – a world away from the boutique hotels and hipster joints that line the street today. In the ’40s and ’50s, it was notorious ...
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 ...
A page from Weegee: Serial Photographer, which was recently translated to English for the first time (all images courtesy of Conundrum Press) In the 1930s and ’40s, when NYPD paddy wagons were carting ...
A loner and an outlier, Weegee took news snaps of people on the margins – which went on to influence photographers after his death. A new reissue of his classic photobook Naked City reveals the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The flashbulb, like a roving spotlight, picks up the glee and awe on the faces of children watching a ...
A loner and an outlier, Weegee took news snaps of people on the margins – which went on to influence photographers after his death. A new reissue of his classic photobook Naked City reveals the ...