In Focus: Weegee: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus Series)

New York in mid-1930s was a time of detectives, G-men, mobsters, and crime photographers. Weegee (American, b. Austria, 1899-1968) fit this last profile perfectly. Speed Graphic camera in hand, he dashed around the city responding to the police radio, recording accidents, arrests, fires, and murders. This volume in the J. Paul Getty Museum's In Focus series examines approximately fifty of the ninety-five Weegee prints in the collection, surveying his photojournalism as well as additional wor…