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Weegee’s first photographic employer, Acme Newspictures, wouldn’t send him out during the day unless he wore a white shirt and tie, so he began taking to the streets at night, ...
Weegee, born Arthur Fellig, stood out among them thanks to talent, hustle and a remarkable lack of a conventional social life. Perhaps that’s why Christopher Bonanos’s appropriately gritty ...
Thames & Hudson has just released Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, a comprehensive new book offering the first full ...
Curator Brian Wallis has crafted a show that demonstrates how and why Weegee became one of the best-known photojournalists in New York City from the mid-'30s through the ‘40s.
Notorious photographer Weegee and Stanley Kubrick overlapped over decades — resulting in this striking portrait of actor Peter Bull in “Dr. Strangelove.” ...
Weegee now makes about $4,000 a year, and that more than keeps him in cigars. He has no other expensive habits. He sees an occasional movie, likes to drop into Sammy’s bar on the Bowery once in ...
Weegee is home. Born in 1899 in Zolochiv, a town in the east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Usher Fellig had his Jewish first name Anglicized to Arthur when he passed through Ellis Island in the ...
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 ...