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 ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Weegee, a.k.a. photojournalist Arthur Fellig, derived his moniker from ...
Hollywood hit Nightcrawler transformed the tales of the real-life press photographer, known as ‘Weegee’, into an award winning US blockbuster that grossed more than $50million (£40million) at the box ...
The Aug. 10, 1945 photo "Celebration in the Garment District on Japanese offer to surrender" by Weegee and the same vantage point on March 18.AP The 1953 photo "Showing Tonite" of a theater marquis on ...
Legendary (and self-taught) photographer WeeGee, real name Arthur Fellig, has arguably taken some of the most beautiful, compelling, and disturbing photos of NYC. He began working as a photographer ...
Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, made a name for himself as a crime photographer in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, creating gritty scenes of the horrors of urban life. After ditching his ...
If anyone ever really loved New York City after dark, it was the photographer who called himself Weegee. Rising each night at 7, he would step from his bed fully dressed, grab the first sip in a ...
NEW YORK | A new book of photos by legendary photographer Weegee shows what industrialized, pre-gentrified New York looked like in the mid-20th century, before the city was crammed with towers and ...
More than a decade ago, William Klein claimed that there are two kinds of photographers: “Jewish and goyish.” He said that if you look at modern photography, you find, “on the one hand, the Weegees, ...