Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
56<br />
Weegee<br />
Naked City<br />
When Naked City was published in 1945, it was an instant success and inspired a Hollywood film. Naked City is<br />
Weegee’s unflinching look at his beloved New York City through photos by turns ironic, hilarious, seamy and brutal.<br />
Photographing the city at all hours and in all its guises, Weegee created a thrilling, lonely and candid portrait, and a style<br />
that was to inspire younger photographers, not least Diane Arbus. <strong>Steidl</strong>’s facsimile of Naked City carefully recreates<br />
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<br />
Weegee would be proud.<br />
Weegee (Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) is best known for his tabloid news photos of urban crowds, crime scenes and<br />
New York City nightlife of the 1930s and 1940s. Between 1935 and 1946, Weegee was perhaps the most relentlessly<br />
inventive figure in American photography. Weegee later dedicated himself to what he called “creative photography”,<br />
images made through distorting lenses and other optical effects. He also made short films and collaborated with film<br />
directors such as Jack Donohue and Stanley Kubrick, as a special-effects consultant and still photographer.<br />
Exhibition: International Center of Photography, New York, 20 January to 2 September <strong>2012</strong><br />
Co-published with the International Center of Photography, New York<br />
Weegee<br />
Naked City<br />
Text by Weegee<br />
244 pages<br />
6.7 x 9.5 in. / 17 x 24 cm<br />
236 photographs<br />
Quadrotone<br />
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket<br />
€ 40.00 / £ 30.00 / US$ 50.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-438-0<br />
57
Change language