The International Center of Photography (ICP) holds more than 20,000 images by the legendary New York City press photographer, Weegee. Weegee, whose real name was Arthur Felig, was a New York City ...

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 ...

He managed to get within just a couple of feet from other audience members thanks to the development of infrared photography during WWII. Weegee said: “I guess all photographers want to be invisible.

NEW YORK – A new book of photos by legendary photographer Weegee shows what industrialized, pre-gentrified New York looked like in the mid-20th century, before the city was crammed with towers and ...

Unidentified Photographer, “On the Spot,” December 9, 1939. (Weegee with his camera on the right) (All images courtesy the International Center of Photography) “Everybody ought to go careful in a city ...

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 ...

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 ...

October marked the launch of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980, a region-wide collaboration celebrating the birth of the Los Angeles art scene. Lyra Kilston reports on the photography made ...

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 ...

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 ...