Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph. A dead mobster on the sidewalk. Tenement children sleeping on a fire escape.

Perhaps you have heard about The Herald Tribune, The Brooklyn Eagle, The New York Telegram, The Evening World, The Journal Tribune. There were several others, but today they are mostly all dead. Many ...

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 ...

WORCESTER - By pointing his camera toward the gutter, the photographer known as Weegee documented the grimy soul of New York City, finding poetry amid the squalor of everyday life. For two decades at ...

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 ...

With their hard shadows and dark imagery, these pictures could have been taken from any number of crime scenes in a melodramatic film noir. But these grisly photos are no movie magic. In fact, they ...

“Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee” is all about spectacle with a good dose of titillation, salaciousness and disdain thrown in to spice up grim, often gory stories of plain folks running amok or ...

Weegee is best known for his images of urban crime, death, and nightlife. But a series of photos from the International Center for Photography’s collection, which are on display at the newly reopened ...

The notorious photographer’s career was cratering when he took a gig on the set of ‘Dr. Strangelove’ It seems like it shouldn’t work: Stanley Kubrick, the cerebral perfectionist, working with Weegee, ...

Mark Athitakis is a writer in Phoenix and author of “The New Midwest.” Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph. A dead ...

Hear the word “noir,” and the image that pops into your head probably resembles a black-and-white Weegee photograph. A dead mobster on the sidewalk. Tenement children sleeping on a fire escape.