He managed to get within just a couple of feet from other audience members thanks to the development of infrared photography during WWII. Weegee said: “I guess all photographers want to be invisible.

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 ...

Press photographer Weegee’s Bowery was a Skid Row of derelicts and drunks – a world away from the boutique hotels and hipster joints that line the street today. In the ’40s and ’50s, it was notorious ...

Weegee, "Marilyn Monroe distortion" (c. 1962) (all images © International Center of Photography/Getty Images; all images International Center of Photography) There ...

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 ...