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, "Marilyn Monroe distortion" (c. 1962) (all images © International Center of Photography/Getty Images; all images International Center of Photography) Success ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Weegee, "Police officer and assistant removing body of Reception Hospital ambulance driver Morris Linker from East River," New York The dead are easy to photograph because they stay still. So said ...
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 ...