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WEEGEE [pseud. of Arthur Fellig].
Weegee's People.
First edition, first printing. Weegee's second book. His 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.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to front cover and spine gilt on a dark brown ground. With the dust jacket. Spine tips rubbed, dust jacket chipped to corners, tape reinforcement to verso and recto of head of spine.
