Photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, lugged his enormous Speed Graphic camera around the nighttime streets of New York City in the 1930s and ‘40s, cultivating a persona as stark and as ...

FLASH: The Making of Weegee the Famous, by Christopher Bonanos. Henry Holt, 379 pp., $32. Even if you don’t recognize the name Arthur Fellig, you know his work. Better known as Weegee, the seminal ...

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, who dramatically shaped America’s perception of the crime scene, only really started working as a professional photojournalist when he was close to 40. I mention this not only to make all us ...

Weegee, Untitled (Portrait of a Transvestite Robber), c. 1940. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm). Stamped. Candid image of a transvestite portrayed in a somewhat embarrassing ...

Nineteen-thirties New York was a newspaper photographer’s dream. It was the golden age of Murder Inc., a gang of Jewish hitmen, and small-time wiseguys and would-be stool pigeons were getting popped ...

Weegee, Untitled (Portrait of a Transvestite Robber), c. 1940. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm). Stamped. Candid image of a transvestite portrayed in a somewhat embarrassing ...

In 1963, Arthur Fellig, the photographer known as Weegee, was past the peak of his career. He had been the most famous press photographer alive in the 1940s, especially after he published 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, ...