Weegee (Pantheon Photo Library) - Softcover

Centre National De LA Photographie

 
9780394747859: Weegee (Pantheon Photo Library)

Synopsis

Gathers photographs of models, children, audiences, transvestites, crime and accident victims, moviegoers, flower sellers, writers, singers, and nightclub regulars

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Review

'When Weegee started out he was considered a tabloid photographer, someone out there taking lurid, disgusting shots that were not for ‘nice’ people. And now today he is considered an artist, or at least an art photographer. But more importantly he recorded the times, the scene, the New York City he saw around him, the five boroughs. He captured not just death and disaster – concepts which would later entrance everyone from Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst – but people, places, buildings, that otherwise would indeed have vanished for ever.' (Tana Jamowitz, author of The Slaves of New York, Independent)

'Presented beautifully.'(British Journal of Photography)

'[A] bawdy collection packed with murderers and corpses, overweight cabaret stars too gaudily made-up, and tatooed joes lolling on the beach. Weegee's pictures have an urgency that far outlives the tabloids in which they first appeared.' (Daily Telegraph)

'A great introduction to the Weegee world.' (Guardian)

About the Author

The late Andre Laude was a renowned writer, surrealist and poet.

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