FLASH: The Making of Weegee the Famous, by Christopher Bonanos. Henry Holt, 379 pp., $32. Even if you don’t recognize the name Arthur Fellig, you know his work. Better known as Weegee, the seminal ...

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The photographs of Arthur Fellig, still enthrall like timeless, hardboiled detective stories -- 70 or so years after they were taken. A glimpse of Weegee's seedy, fast-paced universe is on view at the ...

It’s easy to feel conflicted about "Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous" by Christopher Bonanos (Henry Holt, 319 pp., ★★★ out of four). It’s a biography that stirs up so many feelings: curiosity, ...

Arthur Fellig-- Weegee-- documented crime scenes better than any other photographer. While documenting the crime, grit, and complex humanity of midcentury New York City, he lived a life just as worthy ...

Weegee was no flash in the pan. Fifty years after his death, the man born Usher Fellig remains the quintessential New York tabloid photographer. Weegee captured some of the most iconic shots of New ...

Photography, at its mid-nineteenth-century beginning, muscled in on painting one precinct at a time. Portraiture, of a solemn, straight-on sort, suggested itself immediately. Its hold-still ...

We know the name: Weegee. And we know the photographs — most famously, “The Critic,” in which two operagoers, all dolled up in furs and jewels, are oblivious to a drunk woman at their side who’s ...