Weegee and Naked City

Name: Weegee and Naked City
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ISBN: 9780520255906

ISBN-10: 0520255909

ISBN-13: 9780520255906

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anthony W. Lee, Richard W. Meyer

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction


Learning from Low Culture



Human Interest Stories



Notes


Works cited


Index