Naked City

O god do not touch this one with a ten-foot pole. A purported book of photographs with ABSOLUTELY NO CONSIDERATION given to the reproduction of said photos. They literally look like mimeograph. I'm sending mine back. I'm so disgusted.

The copy that I received was REALLY not a good quality. I wasn't expecting glossy photos because I bought a more affordable version, but I didn't think that the pictures would look streaked and washed out like the printer was running out of toner!

My fault for not reading the reviews. The quality of this book is very poor. Not only are all the photos reproductions, so is the text and it looks as if somebody started with the real book and photocopied the whole thing. Very disappointed. Probably going to return this.I can't fault the content - text or photos - but it does not do justice to this great photographer.

I immediately realized that I could improve many of these photos by scanning them into iPhoto and tweaking a little. I just didn't think that should be up to me. Surely, Weegee's work was better than this.

I bought this to replace my old copy I had misplaced over the years. This is a print on demand edition (something I was not aware of when I bought it). While print on demand is acceptable for text-works, for a book of photography the quality suffers profoundly.Highly noticeable moire, a lack of contrast, poor quality paper does not do justice to Weegee's work.

As others have mentioned, the photo quality in this book is awful. I wondered how bad it could really be when I saw the other Amazon reviews, and let's just say the reviewers were not exaggerating. I see that a hardcover is being reprinted in a few months--if you're dying to see some Weegee, it'd probably would be worth it check out his photos online until the hardback comes out, then cough up the extra dough.

OK, I've learned my lesson. With so many negative reviews, everyone can't be wrong. I have purchased literally hundreds of books from Amazon, and I like Amazon very much, but this was the worst piece of @#$%$#!! book I have ever purchased from them. How dare they charge $17.50 for this amateurish reprint! I knew it was a print on demand book (the date I ordered it is printed on the back page) but I didn't think it would look like it was printed on a Xerox machine from the '70's that was running out of toner!! The photos are washed out and undiscernable. I'm hoping I can find a beat up copy of the original somewhere. I really would love to have this book. Oh, and BTW, shame on Da Capo Press!!. I own many of their wonderful reprint books on music. My respect for them as a publisher has dropped 80 points!

Great book but this edition is very poorly printed.

I bought this book as I'd heard so much about Weegee, the Street Photographer's Street Photographer. The book arrived and the cover looked well presented. However the actual pages/photographs though look as though they have been badly photocopied and in my opinion render the book worthless.If you're considering getting this book as a present, just don't do it. I shall be complaining to the publisher as well !

Horrible printing, not worth a penny.

Weegee scrive come fotografa. Illumina la scena a colpi di flash e te la avvolge nella massa oscura e invisibile della Naked City, la grande città sorpresa e messa a nudo nel teatro notturno di intimità, vizio e violenza. Proprio per questo per questa connessione stretta tra parola e immagine è inconcepibile che il libro sia corredato di riproduzioni fotografiche di qualità pessima. Oggi vanno di moda i Coffee table Book, volumi giganteschi quanto inutili, e credo che un modo eccellente per impiegare tanta carta sia dare degna pubblicazione a Naked City.

....in erschreckend schlechter Qualität. Das Buch sieht aus wie daheim selbst ausgedruckt--die Bilder sind dementsprechend schlecht und kontrastarm. Ich brauche das Buch für meine Abschlussarbeit -- der Text ist auch absolut aufschlussreich und Weegee-typisch unterhaltsam. Die Bilder sind nicht zu gebrauchen: D.h. wer einen Katalog möchte mit Weegees beeindruckenden Fotografien sollte sich für ein anderes Buch entscheiden. Wer - wie ich - ein bisschen über die Person Weegee erfahren möchte und in seinem bekanntesten und wichtigsten Werk blättern will, kann das Buch ruhig kaufen.

Non avevo fatto caso alle recensioni. Una schifezza assoluta di libro, sono fotocopie di fotocopie di fotocopie, rilegate insieme e fatte passare per libro. Chiesto rimborso.