City Room: Lens Blog: Weegee's Crime Scene Photos at I.C.P.
He didn't know the world of galleries, but he did know one thing very well: the streets of New York. The Lens blog looks at Weegee's New York crime scene photography.
(Photographing) Murder Was His Business
He didn't know the world of galleries, but he did know one thing very well: the streets of New York. The Lens blog looks at Weegee's New York crime scene photography.
A view to kill
He went by Weegee — and, like a human Ouija board, legendary photographer Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) had an uncanny prescience, often getting to a crime scene ahead of the cops. With a cigar in his mouth, a police scanner in his car and a Speed Graphic camera in his hands, he...
Model's mystery: Police response faulted in motel death
In the wake of the mysterious death of a down-on-her-luck former supermodel, authorities are claiming that they handled her death according to protocol, but questions remain about whether the death scene should have been investigated as a potential crime scene– and why Charlottesville Police never notified next of kin. "They treated her like a dead dog on the side of the road," says Federico ...
Film Noir: Weegee Was His Name; Murder Was His Game
He went by Weegee — as in ouija — because in the 1930s and '40s, the prescient photographer and his camera were often the first to show up at crime scenes.
Serving warrants in Lee County leads to car chase and new fugitive
Updated with video; Robert Andrew Aitken, Jr. is wanted after leading Lee County deputies on a chase and ramming them with his vehicle.
Weegee's Killer Decade
Arthur Fellig prowled the streets of New York with a stogie, a Speed Graphic and an unmatched feel for the real city. A new show, "Weegee: Murder is My Business," shows how.
LUV: Sundance Film Review
David Rooney Talented young newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. and Common play an impressionable kid and his badass uncle in this Baltimore-set coming-of-age story, which also features Dennis Haysbert as a commanding villain. read more
The Imposter: Sundance Film Review
David Rooney Documentary seems an inadequate term to describe Bart Layton's densely plotted true-crime thriller, which mixes interviews with dramatizations to tell the gripping story of a 23-year-old French-Algerian who assumed the identity of a Texan teenager. read more