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“... Weegee, aka Arthur or Usher Fellig, invented a certain kind of photography. His pictures of New York street life – crime scenes, car wrecks, society girls, circus freaks, racegoers, rough sleepers, fire victims – were intimate and direct. He used a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera, preset for instant shooting to 1/200th of a second at f16 with a focal distance of ten feet ...”

“... came to depend less on the nature of the photograph than on where and how it was seen. The work of Weegee and Cartier Bresson had a first life as news, in papers and magazines, and a second in books, as art. In classic photographic monographs, a form established in the mid-20th century, most images have a page to themselves. Captions are reduced to a list at ...”

“... fearful Mary remembers ‘Fred Hampton’s mattress . . . captured in the lurid black-and-white Weegee style that seemed to underline the blood-soak and the bedclothes in grabbed-at disarray’. Hampton was a promising young black leader, drugged then shot by the police in his bed, not that the novel tells us anything about him; its gaze ...”

“... a floral wrap and clean hair, and you can practically hear the ceiling fan going round. It makes Weegee look tame.Of course, the 43rd president of the United States knew whereof he spake, and there is such a thing as misunderestimation. As well as knowing him best, a man’s contemporaries have every reason for getting him wrong, but the fact remains that ...”

“... video burns his leather jacket and blows up his guitar. A cropped version of a photograph by Weegee of a crowd of male bathers – Coney Island at Noon Saturday, 5 July 1942 – was chosen as the album cover. It was as though ten records had passed since Faith, and Sony was shocked.Times were changing; house and new jack swing were dominant, and DJs ...”