The Village
Weegee(Author)
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 21. August 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-306-80374-1 (ISBN)
Description
This never-before-published book of photographs by Weegee the Famous (a.k.a. Arthur Fellig, 18991968) reflects the sweeter side of an artist better known for depicting three-alarm disasters. Before he died, Weegee composed a dummy for a book about New Yorks Greenwich Village, the center of American bohemia in the late 40s and throughout the 50s. Weegee was there, prowling the neighborhood at all times of day and night, and in this book he captures the carnival atmospherethe folk singing, rent parties, costume balls, art shows on the street. He would visit the cafs where James Dean might just have dropped in, the bars where customers brought along their pets. Washington Square, the center of the Village, figures in many of these photographs, which are arranged in the order devised by Weegee along with his original introduction. Regarded as one of the major figures of twentieth-century photography, Weegee here produced some of his happiest, funniest, warmest pictures of a city he loved.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Illustrations
60 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-80374-1 (9780306803741)
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Schweitzer Classification