“ALL THE SENSATIONALISM OF DIME THRILLER NOVELS”
WEEGEE. Naked Hollywood. By Weegee and Mel Harris. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, (1953). Quarto, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of Weegee’s dynamic follow-up to his Naked City, with over 130 black-and-white photogravures, in original dust jacket.
"Walker Evans once wrote that the photographer 'is in effect voyeur by nature." Few lived up to that definition better than Weegee (born Arthur Felig), the colorful tabloid-news photographer, whose "stage was the street" (Roth, 118), exploring the lives of "night people and criminals—with all the sensationalism of dime thriller novels" (Parr & Badger I:120). In this sequel to his groundbreaking Naked City (1945), Weegee and editor Mel Harris selected the best of over 2,000 photographs, revealing a side to Hollywood only Weegee could capture.
Book fine; light edge-wear, tiny bit of tape reinforcement to verso of extremely good dust jacket.