On the cover of Weegee: Society of the Spectacle are two self-portraits of this enigmatic, larger-than-life photographer. In the first, resembling a felon’s mugshot, Weegee gives a hard stare down the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arthur Fellig’s pseudonym was Weegee (he preferred “Weegee the Famous”) because of his Ouija-like instinct for ...

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 ...

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 ...