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, ...

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 ...

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is set to open its first major exhibition of 2025 with Weegee: Society of the Spectacle – an exploration of the photographer’s fascination with crime, ...

Early on a Sunday morning, about 15 people gathered at the International Center of Photography (ICP) for a walking tour about the life of New York photographer, Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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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 ...

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