The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, ...

Early on a Sunday morning, about 15 people gathered at the International Center of Photography (ICP) for a walking tour about the life of New York photographer, Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee.

Maybe it’s what International Center of Photography director Brian Wallis called “the CSI mentality,” because America’s obsession with the police procedural appears to have hit the art world. The ICP ...