Extra! Weegee

ISBN-13: 9783777428130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str.

Daniel Blau

Opis

No photographer came close to capturing the sensations, scandals, and catastrophes of 1930s and '40s New York like Weegee (1899-1968). His striking images--captured through his uncanny ability to be on the spot and ready to shoot when things happened--have become part of the visual vocabulary through which we understand the period. This book, however, offers something new: drawing on an NEA archive that was only discovered in 2012, it presents countless never-before-seen Weegee photos. We see new angles on many of his familiar subjects--from the hardened police officer to the loud-mouthed crook; the midnight boozer
to the dancing jazz musician; a dramatic conflagration to the celebrations at the end of World War II--but we also get a glimpse of an unknown side of Weegee through surprising photographs of happy people enjoying themselves. The works are complemented by a fascinating account of the rediscovery of the archive, which had been missing for decades.

Recenzje

»Man bekommt Bilder zu sehen, die längst Ikonen der Moderne geworden sind. Oder Bilder historischer Momente, wie die italienischen Emigranten, die nach dem Sturz des Faschismus eine präfaschistische italienische Flagge neben dem Sternenbanner hissen. Die eindrucksvollsten Bilder aber sind die unspektakulären.«
Welt am Sonntag

O autorze

Daniel Blau (*1962 in Berlin) eröffnete 1990 seine Galerie für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in München und ist insbesondere auf Arbeiten auf Papier und Photographie spezialisiert.