Weegee: Naked New York gathers 41 duotone reproductions of photographs by Weegee, the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, in an eighty-page English-language volume published by Te Neues Publishing Company in 1997. With John Coplans credited as a contributor, the book places Weegee’s New York within the traditions of photojournalism, documentary photography, and the pictorial record of the city’s social life and customs.

The title’s emphasis on a “naked” New York points to a photography of exposure: a city seen through incidents, public encounters, and the charged immediacy of life in the street. Rather than treating New York as a polished civic image, Weegee’s work is associated here with the documentary and photojournalistic record of its inhabitants and circumstances. The compact sequence of duotone images gives the collection a concentrated, editorial character, allowing the photographs to be read together as a portrait of urban life rather than as isolated newspaper episodes.

For collectors, the book is significant as a concise posthumous presentation of Weegee’s photographic subject and working legacy. It connects a major twentieth-century photojournalist with a later photobook format that makes his images available as an ordered, sustained body of work. The 1997 publication also places the volume in a period when established photographic archives were being reframed for book audiences, with Coplans’s participation underscoring the role of editorial selection and authorship in that process.

The verified edition is a 23.5 × 16.5 × 1.9 cm hardcover, identified by ISBN 9783823821229. Its modest physical scale and eighty-page extent make it a focused object: not an exhaustive survey, but a deliberate introduction to Weegee’s New York, valuable for the clarity with which it brings together urban observation, documentary purpose, and the expressive possibilities of photographic sequencing.