August 19, 2005

Naked City by Weegee

~Skweegee Weegee Nobody captured the seamy side of new York City better than the photographer Weegee, who used to cruise the streets of the Big Apple in the 1940s with a police radio in his car, often beating the cops to the scene of a gangland slaying or transvestite club bust. he also used infrared film to snap picks of people making out and picking their noses in movie houses, and had a special lens that could take pictures at a 90 degree angle to keep his subjects from knowing. This book has over a hundred of Weegee's best shots.
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