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New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers by Max Kozloff, Magnum Photographers powerHouse Books, 2003. 176pp. book dimensions: 10 x 10 inches. "Differing from other picture books on New York, New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers introduces a gallery of eye-catching untamed images of the metropolis, taken by Magnum photographers. Known for their independent spirit, they proffer scenes that can best be described as bouncy, cryptic, melancholy, droll, or glamorous, often bringing these clashing possibilities together against great odds, in a single image. For these pictures to have been on target, they had to be off-kilter-as charged with contradictions as the realities of their subject. ... Leafing through the book is like walking the streets of New York, beguiled by their implausible and mixed energies, renewed at each turn of a corner. Through New York's cafeterias, barbershops, fish markets, subways, its fish markets, and taxi cabs, Chinese or Italian weddings, gyms, protest parades, and fancy balls, the photographers have roamed, photographing the city's denizens with a realism that stings and a wit that sparkles. ...." --book description Weegee's New York Photographs, 1935-1960 by Weegee teNeues Publishing, 2000. 368pp. book dimensions: paperback, 11.5 x 9 inches, 335 b/w photos. "Legendary photojournalist Weegee’s unflinching eye led him to territory few other photographers of his time dared to go. His New York was not the glamorous world of nightclubs and bustling sidewalks, but of the back alleys and forgotten tenements that bore witness to the city’s tragedy and violence. Weegee’s New York is a city wounded by the Great Depression, in the throes of unemployment and poverty, of crime, corruption, and prostitution. Taken mostly at night, and marked by the characteristically harsh, artificial light that cast telltale shadows on their subjects, these photographs of crime victims, homeless vagrants, petty thieves, and resolute policemen document the gritty reality of Weegee’s world...." --book description

Weegee
by Kerry William Purcell
Phaidon Press, 2004. 128pp.
book dimensions: 9.5 x 8 inches

"An accessible, collectable book on Weegee. First immigration American, Weegee (1899–1968) is the archetypal tabloid photographer of the twentieth century. Preferring to photograph under the cover of night, he was known for his aggressive use of flash. Weegee’s photographic eye was unstoppable: drawn to the grotesque, the illicit, the illegal, Weegee delivered both harrowing and poignant photographs of crime scenes and criminals to New York’s tabloid-reading public in the 1930s and 1940s." --book description

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Weegee's World
by Miles Barth
Bulfinch, 2000. 256pp.
book dimensions: paperback, 10.8 x 8.6 inches, 250 duotone images.

"Here are Weegee's grisly murders, shocking accidents, gawking crowds, and other signature crime-and-disaster shots, along with his equally arresting human-interest and high-society images. Weegee's World contains more than 250 images, reproduced in duotone and chosen by Miles Barth, past curator at the International Center of Photography. Interpretive essays, an annotated chronology, a bibliography, a filmography, and a list of exhibitions complete this comprehensive volume." --book description

New York's Bravest: Eight Decades of Photographs from the Daily News
by Shawn O'Sullivan, and Patrice O'Shaughnessy
PowerHouse Books, 2002. 160pp.
book dimensions: 11 x 8.5 inches.

"...New York's Bravest: Eight Decades of Photographs from the Daily News, which records 80 years of New York firefighting through 166 pages of dramatic picture stories-children plucked breathlessly from harm, a building transformed by hosing during a winter fire into a glittering ice palace, the seven-alarm blaze caused by a jet collision over Brooklyn in December 1960-that have been the life's blood of the photo tabloid since its creation in 1919. The book concludes with the department's worst fire of all..." --Nathan Ward for Library Journal

New York Exposed : Photographs from the Daily News
by Pete Hamill, Shawn O'Sullivan
Harry N Abrams, 2004. 319pp.
book dimensions: 12 x 9 inches, 320 duotone images.

"This wonderful collection of photographs is drawn from the unparalleled archives of the New York Daily News, the first newspaper to truly understand and use the power of photography. Spanning the years 1920 to 1999, the images here create an unforgettable and indelible portrait of New York and New Yorkers, including crammed sports stadiums, glamorous nightclubs, celebrities, and mean streets. Featuring an insightful text by best-selling author Pete Hamill, New York Exposed is an incomparable visual record of the city over eight decades-full of surprise, drama, and sheer unalloyed fun." --book description

New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive
by William J. Hannigan
Rizzoli, 1999. 160pp.
book dimensions: 9.3 x 12.3 inches

"During the golden age of tabloid photography--from the 1920s to the 1950s--photojournalists created some of the most innovate and enduring images in the history of photography. Photos of crimes and criminals, more than any other subject, captured the public imagination. Here for the first time is a selection of the most outstanding crime photographs from the archive of America's premier tabloid newspaper, the New York Daily News" --book description

The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives
by Douglas Dreishpoon, Alan Trachtenberg, Luc Sante
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2001. 272pp.
book dimensions: (HC) 11.5 x 10.0 inches.

"Published to coincide with an exhibition that will visit 10 sites between January 2002 and November 2004, this glorious book presents 200 black-and-white photographs culled from the enormous New York Times archives. Here are the 1950s, with all their splendor, excitement, tragedy, humor, and sadness. ... The book also includes several essays explaining how the Times photo archives operates. But, make no mistake, the photos are the raison d'etre here: this is a picture book, and an exemplary one at that, deserving of a place alongside the best work produced by the National Geographic Society and the folks at Time-Life." --David Pitt for Booklist

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