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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

"Naked City", Weegee (1899-1968) | PhotoAnthology

Naked City

Weegee (1899-1968)

Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.

With contributions from: ICP (image source); Lucia Catalin (data research). Suggest an Edit

Naked City

Weegee (1899-1968)

Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.

Sunday morning is the only time these cuties get a chance to get cleaned up... Image courtesy of ICP.

Sleeping, Fire Escape, 1938.

Sleeping, Fire Escape, 1938.

Simply Add Boiling Water, 1943.

A couple driven out from the burning tenement.

The curious ones. Image courtesy of ICP.

Woman looking at electric sign on New York Times building showing D-Day progress of Allies in Europe, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Woman eating eskimo pie and reading latest news on Times Building, New York.

Ritz, the puppy belonging to William Kinsman, was one of the casualities of the two-alarm blaze at 157 W. 74th St. yesterday. Image courtesy of ICP.

Mama Mabel with her firstborn, Madison Square Garden, New York.

Firemen Saved her violin, 1943.

Two firemen rescuing angel, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Police officer talking to Dorothy Reportella after she crashed into a truck, New York.

Rag peddler Sam Karshnowitz leading horse rented to pull his wagon, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

A woman relative cried... but neighborhood dead-end kids enjoyed the show when a small-time racketeer was shot and killed.

Sixteen-year-old boy... who strangled a four-year-old child to death.

Metropolitan Opera's women's chorus rehearsal, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Woman watching flying trapeze artist and feeding hot dog to man at same time, Madison Square Garden, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Faust. Image courtesy of ICP.

I spotted this happy man coming out of church... he told me that he was a clothing salesman... and that every Easter Sunday he put on his full dress suit.

Shorty, the Bowery Cherub, celebrating New Year's Eve at Sammy's Bar, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

This is a man arrested for dressing as a girl.

Lovers at Coney Island, Brooklyn. Image courtesy of ICP.

Sailor with Hirohito's head at benefit ball at Waldorf Astoria, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Bowery Bank. Image courtesy of ICP.

At an artists’ ball.

Tired Businessman at the Circus. Image courtesy of ICP.

Alfred Stieglitz in the office of his gallery, An American Place, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Books

Weegee's Naked City

Steidl, 2015

Weegee: Naked New York

teNeues Verlag, 1997

Weegee and Naked City

University of California Press, 2008

Naked City

Da Capo Press, 2002

Naked City

Da Capo Press, 1985

Weegee's New York Photographs, 1935-1960

teNeues Verlag, 2000

Weegee's World

Little, Brown and Company, 1997

Weegee

Aperture, 2005

Weegee: Murder Is My Business

Prestel, 2013

Extra! Weegee

Hirmer Publishers, 2017

Weegee

Thames & Hudson, 2006

Weegee

Phaidon, 2004

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