STREET PHOTOGRAPHY - 1982 Hardcover WEEGEE'S NEW YORK 1935-1960 Crime & Strippers

WEEGEE'S NEW YORK 1935-1960, published by Schirmer/Mosel, 1982. Hardcover with dustjacket.
Illustrated with 335 duotone plates. 35 pages of text in English & German. Thick 4to, glossy pictorial dustjacket. Very good+ with minor age toning.
"'Weegee,' actually Arthur Fellig, was an American photographer who worked as an independent press photographer in New York City in the 1930s and '40s. Thanks to his police radio equipment, he was often on the scene before emergency personnel, specializing in images of mostly nighttime traffic accidents, fire disasters, and violence. The shots from his 4×5″ camera were regularly published in all the major tabloids, and his trademark was close-up photos, head-on and harshly lit with flash."
The photo volume 'Weegee's New York. Photographien 1935-1960' contains, in addition to the B&W photographs, an autobiographical text by Weegee, translated from the American by Reinhard Kaiser. The individual chapter headings are telling and read: Fire - Coney Island beach - Accidents - Crime - Green m Inna - Night types - Sleeping - At the movies - Children - At the circus - Society - Musicians - Bars - Soldiers - Audience - Strippers - Famous - Self portraits.