Weegee

Author : Christopher Bonanos
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627793070

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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos Pdf

The first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself “Weegee,” claiming that he functioned as a human Ouija board. Weegee documented better than any other photographer the crime, grit, and complex humanity of midcentury New York City. In Flash, we get a portrait not only of the man (both flawed and deeply talented, with generous appetites for publicity, women, and hot pastrami) but also of the fascinating time and place that he occupied. From self-taught immigrant kid to newshound to art-world darling to latter-day caricature—moving from the dangerous streets of New York City to the celebrity culture of Los Angeles and then to Europe for a quixotic late phase of experimental photography and filmmaking—Weegee lived a life just as worthy of documentation as the scenes he captured. With Flash, we have an unprecedented and ultimately moving view of the man now regarded as an innovator and a pioneer, an artist as well as a newsman, whose photographs are among most powerful images of urban existence ever made.

Author : Judith Keller,Weegee,J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0892368101

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Weegee by Judith Keller,Weegee,J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

'Weegee' is published to coincide with an exhibition of the photographer's work at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles from September 20, 2005 to January 22, 2006.

Author : Max de Radiguès
Publisher : Conundrum International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1772620238

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Weegee by Max de Radiguès Pdf

A graphic biography of an American street photographer infamous for adjusting the position of dead bodies at crime scenes to make his photographs more artful.

Author : Weegee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3869304383

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Naked City by Weegee Pdf

When Naked City was published in 1945, it was an instant success and inspired a Hollywood film. Naked City is Weegee's unflinching look at his beloved New York City through photos by turns ironic, hilarious, seamy and brutal. Photographing the city at all hours and in all its guises, Weegee created a thrilling, lonely and candid portrait, and a style that was to inspire younger photographers, not least Diane Arbus. Steidl's facsimile of Naked City carefully recreates the original book, bringing to life an object that is in form and spirit as close as possible to the first edition, and of which Weegee would be proud.

Author : Anthony W. Lee,Richard Meyer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520255906

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Weegee and Naked City by Anthony W. Lee,Richard Meyer Pdf

“While Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Alfred Steiglitz photographed New York's sleek skyscrapers, Arthur Fellig (called Weegee) documented the seamy underside of depression-era New York. In this extraordinary book, Richard Meyer and Anthony Lee tell a gripping tale, filled with historical detail about Weegee's transformation from freelance newspaper photographer to fine artist with the publication of his enormously successful book Naked City, in 1945.”—Cécile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s “Lee and Meyer return Weegee to his 'working world' by exploring the multiple contexts of his production-the Photo League, the tabloids, the exhibition galleries, and the book market. The volume adds an important dimension to our understanding of how Weegee straddled the worlds of popular culture, photojournalism, and left politics."—Miles Orvell, author of American Photography and John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II (UC Press) “Groundbreaking. Anthony Lee and Richard Meyer delve deeply into a rich archive of media and exhibition history, criticism, and biography to arrive at original interpretations of the most enigmatic photographer in modern visual and print culture.”—Jordana Mendelson, author of Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929-1939

Author : Weegee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3869304391

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Weegee's People by Weegee Pdf

In 1946, a year after the runaway success of Naked City, Weegee published his affectionate but sharp appraisal of the citizens of New York.Weegee's People presents a true cross-section of New Yorkers, from the photographer's cherished street people to the rich dames who frequented the Metropolitan Opera. This facsimile is a painstaking recreation of the original book, and follows the success of other facsimiles printed by Steidl including Moï Ver's Paris (2003) and Jakob Tuggener's Fabrik (2003).

Author : Brian Wallis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783791353135

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Weegee by Brian Wallis Pdf

Drawn from the International Center of Photography’s archives, this book highlights the incomparable style and fascinating career of Weegee, one of New York City’s quintessential press photographers. For a decade between 1935 and 1946, Weegee made a name for himself snapping crime scenes, victims, and perpetrators. Armed with a Speed Graphic camera and a police-band radio, Weegee often beat the cops to the story, determined to sell his pictures to the sensation-hungry tabloids. His stark black-and-white photos were often lurid and unsettling. Yet, as this beautifully produced volume shows, they were also brimming with humanity. Designed as a series of "dossiers," this book follows Weegee’s transformation from a freelancer to a photo-detective. It explores his relationship with the tabloid press and gangster culture and reveals his intimate knowledge of New York’s darkest corners. It provides readers with a rich historical experience—a New York City "noir" shot through the lens of one of its most iconoclastic figures.

Author : Arthur Fellig,Weegee
Publisher : DeVault-Graves Agency
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942531168

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Weegee by Arthur Fellig,Weegee Pdf

Weegee not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography, brought back with complete and unabridged text by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, was written toward the end of Weegee's life before he was the photographic legend he is today. Here he tells the story of how an impoverished Jewish immigrant named Arthur Fellig from Zlothev, Austria, came to grips with one of the toughest cities in the world and made it his own. In wisecracking prose that is a match for his unblinking ferocity behind the camera, Weegee recounts his days of taking tintypes of kids on ponies and how this knowledge of the streets and neighborhoods of New York led to him being the first on the scene of the city's every murder, disaster, and heartbreak. In Weegee: The Autobiography the author candidly and without reserve tells readers about documenting the grisly street executions by Murder, Inc., tenements up in flames, child killers, lovers in the back rows of movie theaters, and the sexual misadventures of streetwalkers, pimps, and transsexuals, all in a voice that had seen it all and loved it all. Fans of Weegee's photography will not want to miss his story-told in the way only Weegee himself could tell. The new Devault-Graves Digital Editions version of Weegee: The Autobiography contains a wealth of new material for readers. An original Afterword by author and critic Ed Ward and extensive annotations and endnotes are included.

Author : Weegee
Publisher : Prestel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 3791353551

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The Weegee Guide to New York by Weegee Pdf

During his storied career as the quintessential New York photojournalist, Weegee explored the city's least glamorous pockets, depicting brutal crimes, horrific accidents, tenement dwellers, street vendors, and mischievous kids. And although his perspective was often dark and cynical, he was also tremendously sentimental about his subjects' hard lives. This unique guide offers a series of excursions through Weegee's stamping grounds, from the Bowery to Midtown, the West Side to the East, and with a little Brooklyn thrown in. Divided into eleven neighbourhood sections, it includes contemporary and period maps to aid the intrepid explorer or casual rambler as they retrace Weegee's steps from murder scene to car wreck to street fight. Best of all, it features hundreds of photographs - many never-before published and all drawn from the archives of the International Center of Photography - that reinforce Weegee's lasting vision of New York as a city both tough and resilient, a city that never sleeps. Published in association with International Center of Photography. AUTHORS: Philomena Mariani is the director of Publication at the International Center of Photography and co-editor of Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945. Christopher George is an archivist and resident expert on Weegee at the international Center of Photography. 270 photographs

Author : Edward Dimendberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0674013468

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Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg Pdf

This full-length anime action thriller follows the story started in the Sengoku Basara TV series, telling the story of a league of generals, who banded together to defeat an evil overlord, who threatened to dominate Feudal Japan. Now, their nemesis's loyal servant is on the warpath to avenge his fallen leader, and the fate of a nation once again hangs in the balance. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Author : Weegee
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015009380653

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Weegee's Naked City by Weegee Pdf

The ultimate collection of Weegee's shocking tabloid photographs, from the ultimate tabloid city.

Author : Vicki Goldberg
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0826310915

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Photography in Print by Vicki Goldberg Pdf

Essays by photographers, critics, and philosophers.

Author : Miles Barth,Weegee
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821226495

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Weegee's World by Miles Barth,Weegee Pdf

Offers a collection of photographs by the controversial photojournalist that chronicles the seamy underside of life in New York City, from the 1930s to the 1960s. Reprint.

Author : Kate Flint
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780192540683

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Flash! by Kate Flint Pdf

Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been linked to the sublimity of lightning. Yet it has also been reviled: it's inseparable from anxieties about intrusion and violence, it creates a visual disturbance, and its effects are often harsh and create exaggerated contrasts. Flash! explores flash's power to reveal shocking social conditions, its impact on the representation of race, its illumination of what would otherwise remain hidden in darkness, and its capacity to put on display the most mundane corners of everyday life. It looks at flash's distinct aesthetics, examines how paparazzi chase celebrities, how flash is intimately linked to crime, how flash has been used to light up - and interrupt - countless family gatherings, how flash can 'stop time' allowing one to photograph rapidly moving objects or freeze in a strobe, and it considers the biggest flash of all, the atomic bomb. Examining the work of professionals and amateurs, news hounds and art photographers, photographers of crime and of wildlife, the volume builds a picture of flash's place in popular culture, and its role in literature and film. Generously illustrated throughout, Flash! brings out the central role of this medium to the history of photography and challenges some commonly held ideas about the nature of photography itself.

Author : Weegee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015048553641

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Weegee by Weegee Pdf