Naked City - Grand Format

Weegee's Naked City was one of the most influential photography books of the twentieth century. With its unflinching and sometimes amoral honesty, wry humor, and sensationalist subject matters it became a bestseller after its publication in 1945 and inspired countless photographers from Robert Frank and William Klein to Diane Arbus and Andy Warhol. Working as a press photographer in New York City during the 1930s and '40s, Weegee (a pseudonym for Arthur Fellig) roamed the streets at night to chase down crime scenes, midnight trysts, society functions, bawdy bars, and more in an effort to expose with his bright flash the secret lives—and deaths—of New York.
The faces and situations he captured reflected his sweeping perspective of a city that teemed with the contradictions of modern life : wealth and poverty, youth and age, violence and love, horror and joy. Presented here as a remastered facsimile edition, Naked City is as enticing and irreverent as ever. Featuring new reproductions of the source material and arranged in its original layout, this photobook classic shows Weegee's photographs with enhanced clarity and edge.
Welcome to Weegee's New York.