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| Weegee [Click on the appropriate flag to buy the book] | Product Details Paperback 128 pages Phaidon Press Inc. Published 2004 Book Description First immigration American, Weegee is the archetypal tabloid photographer of the 20th century. Preferring to photograph under the cover of night, he was known for his aggressive use of flash. Weegee's photographic eye was unstoppable: drawn to the grotesque, the illicit, the illegal, Weegee delivered both harrowing and poignant photographs of crime scenes and criminals to New York's tabloid-reading public in the 1930s and 1940s. Named after the "Ouija board" for his uncanny ability to arrive at the scene of a crime before the police, Weegee recorded the dark side of New York's streets. No sordid crime seemed to escape his flash and no crime was too gruesome to capture on camera for the papers the next day. Weegee's understanding of people's simultaneous repulsion and attraction to vivid photographs of crimes of passion, murder, brutal accidents was well before his time. Even today, his photographs still have the power to shock, and the originality of the images has elevated them in importance far beyond the newspapers he worked for. |
Weegee's World Miles Barth | |
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Weegee: Naked New York John Coplans (Editor); & Arthur F. Weegee (Photographer) | |
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Weegee William Purcell Kerry (Text); & Weegee (Photographer) | |
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Weegee and Naked City Anthony W. Lee (Author); & Richard Meyer (Author) | |
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Naked City (A Da Capo Paperback) Weegee | |
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Weegee's New York Photographs, 1935-1960 Weegee | |
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Weegee: Aperture Masters of Photography Weegee; & Allene Talmey (Contributor) | |
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