EXTRA! - Weegee
No photographer captured the sensations, scandals and catastrophes of New York in the 1930s and 1940s quite like Weegee (1899-1968). His striking images - captured thanks to his uncanny ability to be on the spot and ready to photograph when things happened - have become part of the visual vocabulary through which we understand this period. This book, however, offers something new: drawing on NEA archives that were only discovered in 2012, it presents countless previously unpublished photographs by Weegee. We discover new angles on many of his familiar subjects - from hardened policeman to loud-mouthed crook; from midnight beer drinker to dancing jazz musician; from man-on-the-street to dancing jazz musician; from dramatic conflagration to celebrations of the end of World War II - but we also get a glimpse of an unknown side of Weegee through surprising photographs of happy people having fun. The works are complemented by a fascinating account of the rediscovery of the archives, missing for decades.
Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 978-3777428130
No photographer captured the sensations, scandals and catastrophes of New York in the 1930s and 1940s quite like Weegee (1899-1968). His striking images - captured thanks to his uncanny ability to be on the spot and ready to photograph when things happened - have become part of the visual vocabulary through which we understand this period. This book, however, offers something new: drawing on NEA archives that were only discovered in 2012, it presents countless previously unpublished photographs by Weegee. We discover new angles on many of his familiar subjects - from hardened policeman to loud-mouthed crook; from midnight beer drinker to dancing jazz musician; from man-on-the-street to dancing jazz musician; from dramatic conflagration to celebrations of the end of World War II - but we also get a glimpse of an unknown side of Weegee through surprising photographs of happy people having fun. The works are complemented by a fascinating account of the rediscovery of the archives, missing for decades.
Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 978-3777428130
No photographer captured the sensations, scandals and catastrophes of New York in the 1930s and 1940s quite like Weegee (1899-1968). His striking images - captured thanks to his uncanny ability to be on the spot and ready to photograph when things happened - have become part of the visual vocabulary through which we understand this period. This book, however, offers something new: drawing on NEA archives that were only discovered in 2012, it presents countless previously unpublished photographs by Weegee. We discover new angles on many of his familiar subjects - from hardened policeman to loud-mouthed crook; from midnight beer drinker to dancing jazz musician; from man-on-the-street to dancing jazz musician; from dramatic conflagration to celebrations of the end of World War II - but we also get a glimpse of an unknown side of Weegee through surprising photographs of happy people having fun. The works are complemented by a fascinating account of the rediscovery of the archives, missing for decades.
Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2017
336 pages
ISBN: 978-3777428130