Naked City

by Arthur Felig Weegee and Weegee

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 Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Reprint of historic photobook from the 40s

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

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.