"Naked City", Weegee (1899-1968)

Sunday morning is the only time these cuties get a chance to get cleaned up... Image courtesy of ICP.

A couple driven out from the burning tenement.

The curious ones. Image courtesy of ICP.

Woman looking at electric sign on New York Times building showing D-Day progress of Allies in Europe, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Woman eating eskimo pie and reading latest news on Times Building, New York.

Ritz, the puppy belonging to William Kinsman, was one of the casualities of the two-alarm blaze at 157 W. 74th St. yesterday. Image courtesy of ICP.

Mama Mabel with her firstborn, Madison Square Garden, New York.

Two firemen rescuing angel, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Police officer talking to Dorothy Reportella after she crashed into a truck, New York.

Rag peddler Sam Karshnowitz leading horse rented to pull his wagon, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

A woman relative cried... but neighborhood dead-end kids enjoyed the show when a small-time racketeer was shot and killed.

Sixteen-year-old boy... who strangled a four-year-old child to death.

Metropolitan Opera's women's chorus rehearsal, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Woman watching flying trapeze artist and feeding hot dog to man at same time, Madison Square Garden, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

I spotted this happy man coming out of church... he told me that he was a clothing salesman... and that every Easter Sunday he put on his full dress suit.

Shorty, the Bowery Cherub, celebrating New Year's Eve at Sammy's Bar, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

This is a man arrested for dressing as a girl.

Lovers at Coney Island, Brooklyn. Image courtesy of ICP.

Sailor with Hirohito's head at benefit ball at Waldorf Astoria, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Tired Businessman at the Circus. Image courtesy of ICP.

Alfred Stieglitz in the office of his gallery, An American Place, New York. Image courtesy of ICP.

Books

Weegee's Naked City

(Steidl, 2015)

Weegee: Naked New York

(teNeues Verlag, 1997)

Weegee and Naked City

(University of California Press, 2008)

Naked City

(Da Capo Press, 2002)

Naked City

(Da Capo Press, 1985)

Weegee's New York Photographs, 1935-1960

(teNeues Verlag, 2000)

Weegee's World

(Little, Brown and Company, 1997)

Weegee

(Aperture, 2005)

Weegee: Murder Is My Business

(Prestel, 2013)

Extra! Weegee

(Hirmer Publishers, 2017)

Weegee

(Thames & Hudson, 2006)

Weegee

(Phaidon, 2004)

Related Projects

Behind the Saint-Lazare station, Paris, 1932. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.

The Decisive Moment

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.

A Night in London

Bill Brandt (1904-1983)

Social disparities, urban alienation, and nocturnal rhythms within 1930s London.

Streetwalkers, Second-Tier Tarts, and Fallen Women

Joan Colom (1921-2017)

Candid documentation of Barcelona’s marginalized sex workers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, presented through high-contrast black-and-white photography with distinctive grain.

Mother Surrounded by Children, Dahlonega, Georgia, 1936

You Have Seen Their Faces

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)

Human faces and living conditions in the American South during the Great Depression, capturing scenes of labor, poverty, and familial life.

A Way of Seeing

Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

Spontaneous moments of childhood play intertwined with the daily rhythms of working-class street life in 1930s and 1940s New York City.

Mortal Paris

Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001)

Working-class life and urban alienation in 1950s Paris during post-war recovery and Algerian War, bridging the humanist documentary tradition with more experimental and subjective approaches.