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 ...

He managed to get within just a couple of feet from other audience members thanks to the development of infrared photography during WWII. Weegee said: “I guess all photographers want to be invisible.

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 ...

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 ...

The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, ...

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 ...

The way our society and the media cover the dead and the dying — the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, the body on a street after a firefight or violent demonstration — these are not ...

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, ...

Cult New York photographer Weegee was often found at crime scenes before the police, and his stark pictures gained him notoriety and ultimately fame in the art world. His work has now been turned into ...