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Title: Naked City by Arthur Fellig, Arthur F. Weegee ISBN: 0-306-70724-1 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: December, 1975 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Big Apple's snapper
Comment: Weegee knew what kind of photos the editors of the New York daily tabloids wanted, in-your-face gutsy black and whites to capture the reader's imagination over the breakfast table. He always delivered too. This reprint of his 1945 book captures the energy of the Big Apple and yet there are no shots of skyscrapers. Instead the (mostly) ordinary folk of the city are shown getting on with their lives and deaths.
Many of the photos are taken at night, a Weegee trademark. Inside buildings he used infrared film so he could shoot in near blackness and capture his subjects displaying emotions they would hide, had they known a camera was about. Out on the street he captured the latest human tragedy in stark close-up with a blinding flash of his Speed Graphic camera.
The contents of this book are an amazing selection of photos but I was very disappointed by the reproduction, so only three stars. As far as I can tell, the photos have been scanned from the 1945 book rather than from original prints. The paper is coarse which doesn't help the reproduction either. This looks not much better than a book of photocopies. Far better I think to go for Miles Barth's 'Weegee's World' (ISBN 0821226495). Although it does not have every photo from 'Naked City', the 250 included are printed as duotones on glossy paper, I particularly like this book because it shows many photos as original un-cropped prints. For instance, in his famous photo, 'The Critic' the three bystanders to the left of the two socialites are usually cropped out but here you can see how great the original was. This book also has three excellent essays about Weegee and his influence on other photographers in the Forties.
Rating: 5
Summary: How they lived...and died
Comment: A fine selection of Weegee's unposed, spontaneous vignettes of life in the city, at least, as it was in the 30's and 40's, equivalent of today's TV "fuzz and the wuzz". His accompanying commentary, unghosted and punchy, mirrors the b/w images; snappy, to the point. The paper stock used here is cheap, but then, these photos usually appeared in the morning paper...in a time when there were newspapers.
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Title: Weegee's New York Photographs, 1935-1960 by Weegee ISBN: 3823854712 Publisher: te Neues Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Weegee's World by Miles Barth ISBN: 0821226495 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Weegee: Naked New York by John Coplans, Arthur F. Weegee, Arthur Fellig ISBN: 3823821229 Publisher: te Neues Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive by William Hannigan, Luc Sante ISBN: 0847821722 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 20 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Picture Palace by Paul Theroux ISBN: 0140050728 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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