
Weegee
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-0-500-02912-1
- Specifications
- hardcover without jacket
26.5 x 20.6 cm
208 pages
130 illustrations
Weegee’s macabre tabloid photographs of murdered gangsters, bodies trapped in crashed cars, slums consumed by fire, and other poignant records of New York’s nocturnal low life in the 1930s and 40s are the stuff of legend. Lesser-known, however, is the work he created in his later years, when he satirized Hollywood, mocking its fleeting glory, jubilant crowds, and social scenes, and created celebrity portraits that he delighted in distorting using a palette of technical tricks.