Download or Read online Flash The Making of Weegee the Famous full in PDF, ePub and kindle. this book written by Christopher Bonanos and published by Henry Holt and Company which was released on 05 June 2018 with total page 320 pages. We cannot guarantee that Flash The Making of Weegee the Famous book is available in the library, click Get Book button and read full online book in your kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC or mobile whenever and wherever You Like. The first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself “Weegee,” claiming that he functioned as a human Ouija board. Weegee documented better than any other photographer the crime, grit, and complex humanity of midcentury New York City. In Flash, we get a portrait not only of the man (both flawed and deeply talented, with generous appetites for publicity, women, and hot pastrami) but also of the fascinating time and place that he occupied. From self-taught immigrant kid to newshound to art-world darling to latter-day caricature—moving from the dangerous streets of New York City to the celebrity culture of Los Angeles and then to Europe for a quixotic late phase of experimental photography and filmmaking—Weegee lived a life just as worthy of documentation as the scenes he captured. With Flash, we have an unprecedented and ultimately moving view of the man now regarded as an innovator and a pioneer, an artist as well as a newsman, whose photographs are among most powerful images of urban existence ever made.
Flash The Making of Weegee the Famous
- Author : Christopher Bonanos
- Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
- Pages : 320 pages
- ISBN : 1627793070
- Release : 05 June 2018
- Rating : 4/5 from 5 reviews