Weegee Madeleine Gray Essays by leading Degas scholars

Essays by leading Degas scholars and conservation scientists explore his practice and recurring themes of the human figure and landscape

What keeps Give 'Em Enough Rope from being a classic is its slightly inconsistent material

But her efforts to start afresh are dragged down by memories from the past and fear of the present

Guy Laroche

the sport has had a rebirth like none other

Weegee Madeleine Gray Essays by leading Degas scholarsOffering a new perspective on Weegee's oeuvre, Society of the Spectacle presents the photographer's iconic images alongside lesser known works. Weegee's macabre tabloid photographs of murdered gangsters, bodies trapped in crashed cars, slums consumed by fire, and other poignant records of New York's nocturnal low life in the 1930s and 40s are the stuff of legend. Lesser known, however, is the work he created in his later years, when he satirized