“You know masseter injections can cause jowls, right?” If only I had a dollar for every time I heard that phrase from fellow beauty editors and friends. Turns out, jowls were the least of my worries.

Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, made a name for himself as a crime photographer in New York in the 1930s and 1940s, creating gritty scenes of the horrors of urban life. After ditching his ...