The quickest, most cunning and New Yorkiest of all street photographers, Weegee treated mundane horrors as a form of show business. It’s a truism by now that Instagram (or, before that, TV or the ...
Written with wry humor and perspicacity by Robert Kaplow, whose novel was the basis of Linklater’s 2008 feature, Me and Orson Welles, the new film again is set in the world of Broadway and expands on ...
Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott co-star in this real-time account of musical-theater lyricist Lorenz Hart getting pickled at Sardi’s on opening night of his former writing partner’s Broadway triumph, ...
The famed twentieth-century photojournalist Weegee was just as fascinated with tragedy—fires, car crashes, murders—as he was ...
A show at the International Center of Photography focuses on Usher Fellig, aka Weegee, featuring the pictures of crime scenes ...
Using his relationship to social “spectacle” as a starting point, the current show branches away from his most famous snaps to other works he did in portraiture, showbusiness, even caricature. Weegee ...
Weegee is home. Born in 1899 in Zolochiv, a town in the east of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Usher Fellig had his Jewish first name Anglicized to Arthur when he passed through Ellis Island in the ...