Weegee and "Naked City" - Defining Moments in American Photography
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Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, Naked Citywith its lurid tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlifechanged 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 picturessuffused with blood, gore, and sensational crimeentered the museum.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520251830 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 04 Apr 2008 |
DEWEY: | 770.97471 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 132 |
Weight: | 485g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 16mm |