The International Center of Photography (ICP) is set to open its first major exhibition of 2025 with Weegee: Society of the ...

Thames & Hudson has just released Weegee: Society of the Spectacle, a comprehensive new book offering the first full ...

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One of the most cherished romantic myths is that of the artist, neglected during his or her lifetime, who earns recognition posthumously. On first inspection you'd think the photographer Arthur Fellig ...

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 ...

Ascher Fellig was born in what is now Ukraine in 1899 and moved with his family to New York in 1909, where he changed his name to Arthur. He worked as a photographer’s assistant and darkroom ...

Mailman Robert Joyce was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan back when baseball die-hards were a special breed. Wins meant more, losses cut deeper, bad-mouthing the boys an insult to family. Joyce understood that.

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 ...