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Weegee and Naked City
Anthony W. Lee
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Description for Weegee and Naked City
Paperback. Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, "Naked City" - with its tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlife - changed journalistic practices almost overnight. This book brings different outlooks on photography and modernism to their discussions of Weegee and his book. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 144 pages, 35 duotones. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Defining Moments in American Photography
Condition
New
Weight
356g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520255906
SKU
V9780520255906
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About Anthony W. Lee
Anthony W. Lee, Associate Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College, is the series editor for Defining Moments in American Photography and is coauthor (with Elizabeth Young) of On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. He is also the author of Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics and San Francisco's Public Murals and Picturing ... Read more
Reviews for Weegee and Naked City
"Gives more detail to Weegee's well-known evolution from freelance photographer to Hollywood celebrity." Choice