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WEEGEE [pseud. of Arthur Fellig].
Naked Hollywood.
[written by] Mel Harris.
First edition, first printing. Weegee's nickname (from the Ouija board) derived from his apparently psychic ability to beat authorities to the crime scene, a feat actually made possible by eavesdropping the emergency services on a portable police-band shortwave radio. He maintained a working darkroom in the trunk of his car in pursuance of this urgent street aesthetic. Naked City (1945) was his first book of photographs, and formed the foundation for the 1948 film of the same name. He worked in Hollywood from 1946 to the early 1960s, as an actor and a consultant.
Quarto. Original quarter yellow cloth, black boards, titles to cloth in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Addresses in pen to front pastedown, spine tips lightly faded, dust jacket rubbed and creased to edges, chip to upper corner, price clipped.
