The Making of Weegee the Famous
The first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid.
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“We know the photographs, and now, with this biography from Christopher Bonanos, we can finally know something of the legendary, improbable, and much-caricatured man.”
— David Simon
creator of HBO’s The Wire and The Deuce
“Weegee and his world don’t encourage minimalism, and, fifty years after his death, he has at last acquired a biographer who can keep up with him.”
— Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker
“Christopher Bonanos’s nuanced and sympathetic account is a sweet and melancholy book and a doorway into a mostly misremembered past.”
— Luc Sante
author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
Christopher Bonanos
Christopher Bonanos
Christopher Bonanos is city editor at New York magazine, where he covers arts and culture and urban affairs. He is the author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. He lives in New York City with his wife and their son.
