Scarce early original vintage soft cover first edition of WEEGEE’S Naked City with rare cover page.This soft cover edition contains more than 100 Weegee New York photographs mostly from the 30’s and 40’s.

Weegee was among the first to fully realize the camera's unique power to capture split-second drama and exaggerated emotion. But his profound influence on other photographers, most famously on Diane Arbus, derives not only from his sensational subject matter and his use of the blinding, close-up flash, but also from his eagerness to photograph the city at all hours, at all levels:

Regarded as some of the most powerful images of twentieth-century photography, Weegee's work now resides in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Book measures 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches and is in very good condition with only light surface wear. There are no missing or damaged pages and all the inside pages are clean and bright. There are no bookplates and no tears or underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins.

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