Naked City
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306812045 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Weegee (1900-1968), born Arthur Fellig, is credited with ushering in the age of tabloid culture and revered for elevating the sordid side of human life to the level of high art.
. His pictures of children sleeping on fire escapes, blood-splattered corpses on sidewalks and amorous couples on the beach -- as seen in this reprint of his first book -- reveal that Weegee, unlike his latter day counterparts, had heart and soul. He also had a cockeyed sense of humor, as evidenced by his captions and camera tips. "If it bleeds, it leads" -- the cynical battle cry of today's tabloids -- might easily have been the motto of Arthur Fellig, the freelance photojournalist better known as Weegee, who cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours of the morning in search of the sensational
estelle manticas said Very poor quality. As others have mentioned, the photo quality in this book is awful. I wondered how bad it could really be when I saw the other Amazon reviews, and let's just say the reviewers were not exaggerating. I see that a hardcover is being reprinted in a few months--if you're dying to see some Weegee, it'd probably would be worth it check out his photos online until the hardback comes out, then cough up the extra dough.. You'll Be Sorry!!!!!!! OK, I've learned my lesson. With so many negative reviews, everyone can't be wrong. I have purchased literally hundreds of books from Amazon, and I like Amazon very much, but this was the worst piece of @#$%$#!! book I have ever purchased from them. How dare they charge $17.50 for this amateurish reprint! I knew it was a print on demand book (the date I ordered it is printed on the back page) but I didn't think it would look like it was printed on a Xerox machine from the '70's that was running out of toner!! The photos . George Bittancourt said Have a scanner?. I immediately realized that I could improve many of these photos by scanning them into iPhoto and tweaking a little. I just didn't think that should be up to me. Surely, Weegee's work was better than this.
For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival.