#extra weegee

Vaudevisuals Bookshelf – “Extra WeeGee”

No photographer came close to capturing the sensations, scandals, and catastrophes of 1930s and ’40s New York like Weegee(Arthur Fellig – 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…