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Changes in the Crime Beat
Huffington Post (blog) - Mar 18, 2010
A photographer by the name of Arthur Fellig (1899-1968) and known as Weegee, worked the crime beat in the 1930s and '40s, and he is the person who is most ...

Images of the past hit TV screens
Journal Live - Mar 3, 2010
... goes online today and let's leap straight to Channel 7 which puts the focus on one of the most charismatic photographers of the 20th Century, Weegee. ...

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Weegee's New York: Photographs, 1935-1960

With 335 photos, this large size paperback is one of the better books you'll find of Weegee's work. Divided into eighteen photographic chapters (with one image per page) it really is an impressive selection, especially as it covers his output from 1935 to 1960.

The chapter on crime has the largest selection (thirty-one) with the predictable dead and bloodied bodies surrounded by police and public. Weegee claimed he (and several Speed Graphic cameras) covered hundreds of murders for the New York tabloids, he knew that that the only thing that mattered to the 'tabs' were the headlines and photos, the story could fill any space that was left.
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Naked City

by: Weegee
The photos from the original are some of the greatest ever made. It's criminal to see them reproduced in such a low-quality manner. This book's not worth the cheap paper it's printed on. Very low quality images. Looks like a cheap xerox copy of the original. Save your money and buy an original hardcover copy. Don't waste your money on this cheaply made, over-priced paper-back version.
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Weegee (Phaidon 55's)

by: Kerry William Purcell
A very reasonably priced introduction to the work of this great photojournalist. Because his work depicts the rawness of New York life and primarily for tabloid papers I always thought the critical establishment regarded Weegee as a sideline contributor to American art photography but this book with fifty-five of his, perhaps best known, photos clearly puts him in the mainstream.

In the mid-forties after he went to Hollywood and basically stopped taking the gritty news photos he's famous for I thought his creativity declined, especially in the early fifties when Weegee played about with photo distortions (fortunately only one of these images is in the book) which seem not much more than an art student playing about.
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**Weegee and Naked City (Defining Moments in American Photography)**

by: Anthony W. Lee, Richard Meyer
Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, and his 1945 photography book, Naked City--with its lurid tabloid-style images of Manhattan crime, crowds, and boisterous nightlife--changed prevailing journalistic practices almost overnight. In this volume, two art historians, Anthony W. Lee and Richard Meyer, bring markedly different outlooks on photography and modernism to their discussions of Weegee and his book. Meyer looks carefully at Weegee's pictures before and after they were collected and assesses how his practice of tabloid photography was inseparable from his own lowbrow appeal.
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