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 ...

From a $17-a-month room across the street from police headquarters, Arthur Fellig keeps a peeping eye on crowded, raucous, uncaring Manhattan. An untidy little man with a bulging stomach and moist ...

Arthur Fellig was the original nightcrawler of 1930s and ’40s New York City, a Johnny-on-the-spot news photographer famed for his habit of arriving at bloody crime scenes and three-alarm fires before ...

Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph. A dead mobster on the sidewalk. Tenement children sleeping on a fire escape.

He went by Weegee — as in ouija — because in the 1930s and '40s, the prescient photographer and his camera were often the first to show up at... Film Noir: Weegee Was His Name; Murder Was His Game The ...

In the summer of 1936, Arthur Fellig, the newspaper photographer who would soon be known as Weegee the Famous, was already calling himself Weegee. But he was pretty far from being famous. He had quit ...

Evidence has been uncovered that decades-old street snaps by the famed photographer are still stashed in old files at The Times. By John Otis Arthur Fellig, the prolific photographer and incidental ...

In this classic Weegee photograph, a crowd gathers around the body of a man killed in a melee on Mulberry Street in New York City on Sept. 21, 1939 (AP Images). One of the great aesthetic and moral ...

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 ...

Mark Athitakis is a writer in Phoenix and author of “The New Midwest.” Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph. A dead ...

Arthur Fellig-- Weegee-- documented crime scenes better than any other photographer. While documenting the crime, grit, and complex humanity of midcentury New York City, he lived a life just as worthy ...