The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, ...

Arthur Fellig earned his nickname “Weegee” because of an unnerving ability to arrive at crime scenes before police did. It was as if he used a Ouija board as well as a camera to do his job. That job ...

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.

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 ...