the photographs in this book are a little known body of work

a reverence for the supernatural

Beauty is in the human relationships that are formed

waiting for the night to die down and the light to rise again

and one of the most frequently photographed

Weegee's World Toshio Shibata the photographs in this bookSecond edition of Weegee's Word by Miles Barth. Medium format hardback in as new condition. About Weegee was the archetypal hard boiled tabloid photographer. From the 1930s to the 1960s his images of murder, mayhem and the underside of New York set a new standard for immediacy and wit and influenced a generation of of imitators. Working with a Speed Graphic and an on camera flash, he shot in a stark, punchy, in your face style, often capturing his