Weegee. Weegee's Creative Camera

Hanover House, 1959. — 136 p.Dust jacket notes: "Weegee has long been recognized as one of the world's best, and certainly most imaginative, photographers. A brilliant innovator, he looks upon photography as the youngest of the arts. In his hands the camera has become a creative instrument. By originating new ideas or devices, or by using in new ways those already in existence, he has bent the camera to his will. The results of these techniques and innovations have been startlingly successful and Weegee has been able to accomplish hitherto impossible things with his camera. As a professional photographer who depended upon his photographs for his living, he guarded these new ideas carefully and reveals them now for the first time in Weegee's Creative Camera. He has chosen his most famous pictures in each technique and shows the reader how the effect was achieved and how he may duplicate it. All the technical data is presented in clear, cogent language and accompanied by how-to illustrations. There are chapters on such famous Weegee techniques as Photo-Caricature, Kaleidoscopic Effects, Designs and Patterns, Painting with a Camera, Photo-Montage, and Infrared Photography in the Dark. Weegee's famous mood shots, his women, and his revealing portraits of big-city life are included in the liberal selections from his photographic archives which make this book such a complete study of his work. Weegee's Creative Camera is more than a how-to book; it is the summation of a great photographer's career. This book and the amazing techniques he has developed over the years are Weegee's 'legacy to the field of photography.'" About the author: "Born Arthur Felllig in Austria, Weegee has been a newspaper photographer and freelancer for Vogue, Fortune, Look, and Life magazines. His unique name was given him by his newspaper friends for the uncanny sixth sense which brought him to the scene of countless dramatic events."