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OverviewArthur 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. Lee paints the vivid details of a leftist journalism world in 1930s and 1940s New York and shows how this world helped shape the photographer's vision. These essays restore the Naked City photographs to the mass circulation newspapers and magazines for which they were intended, and they trace the strange process by which the most famous of these pictures--suffused with blood, gore, and sensational crime--entered the museum. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anthony W. Lee , Richard W. MeyerPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 3 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780520251830ISBN 10: 0520251830 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 02 April 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviews"""Gives more detail to Weegee's well-known evolution from freelance photographer to Hollywood celebrity.""--Choice" Gives more detail to Weegee's well-known evolution from freelance photographer to Hollywood celebrity. --Choice Gives more detail to Weegee's well-known evolution from freelance photographer to Hollywood celebrity. --Choice Gives more detail to Weegee's well-known evolution from freelance photographer to Hollywood celebrity. --Choice Author Information"Anthony W. Lee, Associate Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College, is the series editor for Defining Moments in American Photography and is coauthor (with Elizabeth Young) of On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. He is also the author of Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera, Radical Politics and San Francisco's Public Murals and Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco, all published by UC Press. Richard Meyer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Director of the Contemporary Project at the University of Southern California. In 2006-07, he served as the first Katherine Stein Sachs and Keith L. Sachs Visiting Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art, the editor of Representing the Passions: Histories, Bodies, Visions, and, with David Roman, the co-editor of Art Works: Part I and II, two special issues of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. He is currently organizing an exhibition ""Warhol's Jews"" for the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and completing a book titled What was Contemporary Art?" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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