Sometimes it feels like photography has become overly complex. Thankfully, this timeless photography quote is there to keep ...

The cigar-chomping P.T. Barnum of photography, Arthur Fellig was a photographic opportunist who mixed fantasy with reality. A self-aggrandizing showboat who understood what sold, he prowled the ...

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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 ...

Weegee danced and screamed to get the beach crowd's attention. The masked man called himself the Spider. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) / International Centre of Photography / Getty Images At 70 years old and ...

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 ...

The photographs of Arthur Fellig, still enthrall like timeless, hardboiled detective stories -- 70 or so years after they were taken. A glimpse of Weegee's seedy, fast-paced universe is on view at the ...

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 ...

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