Weegee could easily be described as one of the most important freelance photo journalists who ever worked in the profession. Though the last years of this life were melancholy, what he accomplished, in one decade of news photography from the mid-1930s through the mid-1940s, is an extraordinary chronicle of New York. The publication of his epic, Naked City, will always be considered a classic love affair between a photographer and his subject. In Weegee’s case, the subject was New York, and his photographs became the frozen moments that are the icons of urban life in its calm, joy, and chaos during that period. (Text engl.)
