Naked City
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Book Overview
For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0306812045
ISBN13:9780306812040
Release Date:December 2002
Publisher:Da Capo
Length:244 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.7"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Reprint of historic photobook from the 40s
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
This is a small-format (non-coffee-table) book containing a representative selection of Weegees typical photos of New York tragedies (mostly) of the 20s, 30s and 40s, together with his own cryptic comments. Not to everyone's taste, but an iconic social document of the place and times.
How they lived...and died
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
A fine selection of Weegee's unposed, spontaneous vignettes of life in the city, at least, as it was in the 30's and 40's, equivalent of today's TV "fuzz and the wuzz". His accompanying commentary, unghosted and punchy, mirrors the b/w images; snappy, to the point. The paper stock used here is cheap, but then, these photos usually appeared in the morning paper...in a time when there were newspapers.
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