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Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous

Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous

Bonanos, Christopher

Paperback

ArtistsPhotographersArt & Popular Culture

Publisher Price: $26.99

ISBN10: 1250229871
ISBN13: 9781250229878
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 11 2019
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

The first comprehensive biography of Weegee--photographer, psychic, ultimate New Yorker--from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid.

Arthur Fellig's ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself Weegee, claiming that he functioned as a human Ouija board. Weegee documented better than any other photographer the crime, grit, and complex humanity of midcentury New York City. In Flash, we get a portrait not only of the man (both flawed and deeply talented, with generous appetites for publicity, women, and hot pastrami) but also of the fascinating time and place that he occupied.

From self-taught immigrant kid to newshound to art-world darling to latter-day caricature--moving from the dangerous streets of New York City to the celebrity culture of Los Angeles and then to Europe for a quixotic late phase of experimental photography and filmmaking--Weegee lived a life just as worthy of documentation as the scenes he captured. With Flash, we have an unprecedented and ultimately moving view of the man now regarded as an innovator and a pioneer, an artist as well as a newsman, whose photographs are among most powerful images of urban existence ever made.

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