ICP offers a rare display of his late-career portraits of celebrities alongside the classic New York photos he is celebrated for. How did he go wrong? By Arthur Lubow How did the photographer Arthur ...

Weegee, "Marilyn Monroe distortion" (c. 1962) (all images © International Center of Photography/Getty Images; all images International Center of Photography) There ...

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 ...

Gotham-mayhem pics still jolt while Hollywood-glam pics merely amuse. I’m always up for Weegee. That’s Arthur Fellig (1899–1968), the brewed-in-bitters photojournalist whose snaps of slugged gangsters ...

If anyone ever really loved New York City after dark, it was the photographer who called himself Weegee. Rising each night at 7, he would step from his bed fully dressed, grab the first sip in a ...

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 ...

The body of a young woman who jumped from a car and was killed lies on the curb covered by newspapers and a sheet as a policeman walks away with his hands behind his back, New York, 1938.