Naked city
Weegee
Naked city
Photographs: Weegee
Publisher: Essential Books
246 pages
Pictures: 239
Year: 1945
Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 245 x 175 mm. First Edition, third printing, 1945. Gravure printing. Black & white photographs. Certainly, one of the most influential photography books of the twentieth century. Included in 101 Books, pp.118-19; Auer, p.307 ; The Open Book, pp.142-43 ; The Photobook, vol. I, p.145. Some tears and loss on dust jacket (see pictures). Copy yellowed, mostly at the edges. Inside is fine. Reproductions very well preserved. Attractive copy with rare original jacket!
Polish-born Arthur Felig, who immigrated to the United States in 1910 and taught himself photography, was dubbed “Ouija” by New York City cops in the 1930s for his uncanny ability to appear at crime scenes before the police did. A tabloid-news photographer for the Daily News, Herald Tribune and Post, Weegee in many ways created his own legend—“that of the cigar-chomping sensationalist paparazzo.” With the vivid photogravures assembled in Naked City, Weegee created a “photobook masterpiece… one of the great documentary photobooks… His Naked City is essentially a nocturnal book, to be put alongside Brassaï and Brandt… Beneath its Rabelaisian tough-guy exterior, this is a book with heart” (Parr & Badger I:145). When Naked City was adapted to the screen, Weegee “went to Hollywood to make several short films and to act in others. But he is best remembered as the chronicler of a particular place and time : New York City in the first half of the 20th century” (Roth, 118). As Earl Wilson put it, “Weegee is an O. Henry with a camera.”
more books by Weegee
more books tagged »gravure« | >> see all
-
NON
by Collective
sold -
Les Européens
by Henri Cartier-Bresson
sold -
Cities : Spaces between real and unreal (Signed)
by Eimu Arino
sold -
Ikari wo hibi no kateni
by Tatsuo Kurihara
Euro 250 -
Mexico
by Anton Bruehl
sold -
Kobenhavn ved nat
by Hermann Larsen
sold
more books tagged »new york« | >> see all
-
Deeper Shades #01 New York (signed)
by Andreas H. Bitesnich
Euro 60 -
Roosevelt Station
by David Rothenberg
Euro 40 -
Photographies
by Bruce Davidson
sold -
Prince Street Girls
by Susan Meiselas
sold -
Bridge (NUMBERED, edt of 15)
by Joanna Epstein
Euro 35 -
HELL'S ANGELS
by Osamu Nagahama
sold
more books tagged »parr & badger« | >> see all
-
CASE HISTORY (SIGNED)
by Boris Mikhailov
sold -
Les Américains
by Robert Frank
sold -
Dienststelle Marienthal (SIGNED, edt of 150)
by Andreas Magdanz
sold -
She (Signed)
by Lise Sarfati
sold -
Beyond borders (LTD & SIGNED)
by Frederic Lezmi
Euro 300 -
Fast City (signed)
by Morten Andersen
sold
more books tagged »auer« | >> see all
-
Oog om oog
by Sanne Sannes
sold -
Chicago, Chicago
by Yasuhiro Ishimoto
sold -
Morire di Classe (SIGNED)
by Carla Cerati & Gianni Berengo Gardin
sold -
Yukiguni / Snow Land
by Hiroshi Hamaya
sold -
Yukiguni / Snow Land
by Hiroshi Hamaya
sold -
Hiroshima (Signed)
by Ken Domon
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com