Saturday afternoon show for the youngsters at Loew's Commodore Theater on Second Avenue… Some of the kids brought lunch… lolly pops… ca. 1945 Saturday afternoon ...
In this classic Weegee photograph, a crowd gathers around the body of a man killed in a melee on Mulberry Street in New York City on Sept. 21, 1939 (AP Images). One of the great aesthetic and moral ...
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 ...
These stunning images show the bustling heart of New York in the middle of the 20th century - and how times have changed in the city. Pictures taken in the 1940s and 1950s by legendary crime ...
These photographs were all shot by Arthur Fellig and are said to have highly influenced the film noir genre. In fact, in 1945 he published a book of his photographs, called Naked City, which inspired ...
It’s hard to imagine New York City without the tourists bustling through Times Square or the skyline increasing in height every time you look up, but it wasn’t always like this. Cast your imagination ...
The body of a young woman who jumped from a car and was killed lies on the curb covered by newspapers and a sheet as a policeman walks away with his hands behind his back, New York, 1938.
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, ...
To live in New York is to witness a city in constant transformation: the sudden rise of glass condos sheltering phantom czarinas; crusty dive bars replaced with 24 hour ATMs; the classic red-sauce ...