num_pages: 246
description: "From a $17-a-month room across the street from police headquarters, Arthur Fellig keeps a peeping eye on crowded, raucous, uncaring Manhattan. An untidy little man with a bulging stomach and moist brown eyes, he sleeps in his clothes, spends most of his nights cruising about, photographing the city. Newspaper readers see his pictures over the credit line Weegee (phonetic for Ouija--because he plays hunches on news and pictures). This week, 228 Weegee photographs and 9,000 Weegee words appear in a book, Naked City (Essential Books, $4), that O. Henry might have done if he had worked with a Speed Graphic. There is the same puckish humor, the same teary sentimentality. The book gives a first-rate reporter's picture of Manhattan... Weegee does a better than ordinary job with the run-of-the-mill stuff--bodies crumpled on the pavement, flames licking a tenement roof, skirts swirling in the wind--but people and faces are what he is after. Heads popping out of windows to see tragedy in the street below, the nervous crowd around the body of a murdered man, a man eating a hot dog, these are the pictures that make the book." -- The Press, Monday, July 23, 1945. This reprint of Weegee's classic makes available one of the greatest books ever made about New York.
language: English
title: Weegee: Naked City
titlecomplete: Weegee: Naked City
genres: Cult Classics, Photography, History, The United States Of America, Art History, Crime, New York, Nonfiction, Journalism, Art
ratings_count: 488
publisher: Edition 7L