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Weegee and Naked City

Name: Weegee and Naked City
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 04617672
Price: 32.86 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony W. Lee
ISBN: 9780520255906

Anthony W. Lee

Richard Meyer

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04617672

Publishers University of California Press, April 2008

Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, "Naked City" - with its lurid... Full description

Libristo code: 04617672

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Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, "Naked City" - with its lurid tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlife - changed prevailing journalistic practices almost overnight. In this volume, two art historians, Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer, bring markedly different outlooks on photography and modernism to their discussions of Weegee and his book. Meyer looks carefully at Weegee's pictures before and after they were collected and assesses how his practice of tabloid photography was inseparable from his own lowbrow appeal.Lee paints the vivid details of a leftist journalism world in 1930s and 1940s New York and shows how this world helped shape the photographer's vision. These essays restore the Naked City photographs to the mass circulation newspapers and magazines for which they were intended, and they trace the strange process by which the most famous of these pictures - suffused with blood, gore, and sensational crime - entered the museum.