Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous - Couverture souple

Bonanos, Christopher

 
9781250229878: Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
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ISBN 10 : 1250229871 ISBN 13 : 9781250229878
Editeur : Picador Paper, 2019

Synopsis

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Bonanos is city editor at New York magazine, where he covers arts and culture and urban affairs. He is the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid and Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He lives in New York City with his wife and their son.

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Éditeur
Picador Paper
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1250229871
ISBN 13 
9781250229878
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781627793063: Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1627793062 ISBN 13 :  9781627793063
Editeur : Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2018
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