Weegee: Society of the Spectacle

Offering a new perspective on Weegee's oeuvre, Weegee: Society of the Spectacle presents the photographer's iconic images beside lesser-known works.

There's a mystery to Weegee. The American photographer's career seems to be split in two. On one side, his sensational photography printed in North American tabloids: corpses of gangsters lying in pools of their own blood; bodies trapped in battered vehicles; kingpins looking sinister behind the bars of prison wagons; dilapidated slums consumed ...