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Naked City by Arthur Fellig Weegee (2002, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100306812045
ISBN-139780306812040
eBay Product ID (ePID)2275533
Product Key Features
Book TitleNaked City
Number of Pages244 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndividual Photographers / General, Photojournalism, General, Photoessays & Documentaries
Publication Year2002
IllustratorYes
FeaturesRevised
GenrePhotography
AuthorArthur Fellig Weegee
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal917.471
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisFor 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., Weegee was among the first to fully realize the camera's unique power to capture split-second drama and exaggerated emotion. But his profound influence on other photographers, most famously on Diane Arbus, derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels: coffee shops at three in the morning, hot summer evenings in the tenements, debutante balls, parties in the street, lovers on park benches, the destitute and the lonely. No other photographer has better revealed the non-stop spectacle of life in New York City.Weegee's first book, Naked City (1945), was a runaway success and made him a celebrity who suddenly had assignments from Life and Vogue. By the publication of his second book, Weegee's People (1946), he had cut the wires to his police radio and had begun to photograph the furred and bejeweled grandes dames at the Metropolitan Opera as well as his beloved street people. Naked Hollywood (1953) and Weegee by Weegee (1961) feature portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khruschev, and Liberace -- many of them viewed through the distorted lens of his Weegee-scope.Regarded as some of the most powerful images of twentieth-century photography, Weegee's work now resides in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
LC Classification NumberF128.37
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- Jan 18, 2018
Fantastic if your a student of history photo journalism crime noir this is for you great reading and the subject matter is pure Americana awesome!!!!
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