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 ...

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.

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 and ...

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 ...

Press photographer Weegee’s Bowery was a Skid Row of derelicts and drunks – a world away from the boutique hotels and hipster joints that line the street today. In the ’40s and ’50s, it was notorious ...

In the 1930s, Ukrainian émigré Arthur Felig (aka "Weegee" or “Weegee the Famous”) would stay up all night roaming the streets of New York in search of accidents and crimes to photograph. With an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The flashbulb, like a roving spotlight, picks up the glee and awe on the faces of children watching a ...

A loner and an outlier, Weegee took news snaps of people on the margins – which went on to influence photographers after his death. A new reissue of his classic photobook Naked City reveals the ...

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 ...