--- title: Weegee’s Naked Hollywood description: The photographer's images made in Southern California—many of which have never been shown—are brought together in a comprehensive and delightful exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. canonical: https://time.com/3783214/weegees-naked-hollywood-at-moca/ author: Lyra Kilston article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2011-11-28T09:00:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:41:17.997Z article:section: World og:title: Weegee’s Naked Hollywood og:description: The photographer's images made in Southern California—many of which have never been shown—are brought together in a comprehensive and delightful exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. og:url: https://time.com/3783214/weegees-naked-hollywood-at-moca/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8802030dbd30ba7d/69879ab5cd6848b1d609b251/weegee_22670_1993.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: weegee_22670_1993 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Weegee’s Naked Hollywood twitter:description: The photographer's images made in Southern California—many of which have never been shown—are brought together in a comprehensive and delightful exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8802030dbd30ba7d/69879ab5cd6848b1d609b251/weegee_22670_1993.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Weegee's Naked Hollywood > Sponsored content. 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Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images by [Lyra Kilston](/author/lyra-kilston/) ## Lyra Kilston Nov 28, 2011 9:00 AM CUT _October marked the launch of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980, a region-wide collaboration celebrating the birth of the Los Angeles art scene. Lyra Kilston reports on the photography made in this prolific era, the final in a three-part LightBox series about PST._ “Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey, with Palm Trees,” quipped Arthur Fellig, the prolific and fearless photographer of America’s underbelly who was known as Weegee—like the ouija board—for his uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time. After selling the film rights to _Naked City,_ his best-selling book of gritty crime scenes and nocturnal New York street photography, he moved to Los Angeles in 1947, staying for four years. Weegee shot thousands of images during his stint on the West Coast, some of which were featured in the lesser-known book _Naked Hollywood._ He was drawn to the absurd extremes of the city, as well as its banalities, photographing movie premiers, awards ceremonies, costume shops, strip clubs and Skid Row, with a keen and mischievous eye. He also began experimenting with his images to create distorted and surreal results. These irreverent, often bizarre photographs, many of which have never been shown, are brought together in the comprehensive and delightful exhibit “Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. In Hollywood, Weegee came face to face with the enormous power of the image to construct fame and fantasy—and found ways to lampoon it. He quickly joined the ranks of photographers at film premieres, but his camera often wandered, drawn to the messier margins of the scene. He shot from behind a celebrity in order to reveal the mob of omnipresent photographers or focused on the crowds of frenzied fans as they stood on fire hydrants and benches craning their necks to see a movie star, screamed with excitement, or gazed lovingly at movie posters. In one series, a young woman is captured shifting from euphoria to hysterical despair when she fails to get an autograph. Weegee also took pictures of the movie stars themselves, but used what he called an “elastic lens” by incorporating tricks like mirrors, filters, kaleidoscopes and bendable lenses. As he explained, “I had to have a lens out of this world to do justice to the strange sights and people which are Hollywood.” Marilyn Monroe’s face was distorted to look like a pig while Marlene Dietrich’s famous legs were collaged above her waist, erasing her torso entirely. One image consists only of dozens of Judy Garland’s eyes. Weegee used photomontage to brand movie stars with Cadillac logos or confine portraits to a flashbulb, perfume bottle or liquor bottle silhouette. After a decade of taking truthful, often harrowing images for newspapers in New York, Weegee eagerly delved into a more playful, satirical side of photography. Weegee also dabbled in the movies himself, as a bit player and technical consultant, and one room of the exhibit is devoted to his promotional work for film, including shots on the set of _Dr. Strangelove_ and a video of the dizzying kaleidoscopic sequence he made for the documentary film _Windjammer_. Years after he left Los Angeles, Weegee met Andy Warhol in New York. A surprising photograph of the two of them together, as well as Weegee’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Warhol’s face, reveal an uncanny intergenerational link between two men who saw, and manipulated, the potency of celebrity images. Weegee aimed for laughs and raised eyebrows, but even when completely warped, his photographs reveal the barest truths of Hollywood. Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles _is on view through Feb. 27, 2012 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles._ _Lyra Kilston is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including_ Artforum_,_ Art in America _and_ Photo District News_._ **MORE:** Read the [first ](http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/29/julius-shulman-photographys-master-of-mid-century-modern/ "undefined")and [second](http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/29/julius-shulman-photographys-master-of-mid-century-modern/ "undefined") part of the PST series.  The Stars Look Down, ca. 1951 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Weegee and his collaborator Mel Harris in Harris's home, which is carpeted by thousands of the photographer's prints for the Naked Hollywood book. ca.1952 Bob, Parent. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Eyes, ca. 1960 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  An American Tragedy: no autograph, ca. 1951 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  An American Tragedy: no autograph, ca. 1951 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  An American Tragedy: no autograph, ca. 1951 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Premiere, ca. 1951 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  The Critic, 1943 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  These are men arrested for dressing as girls... the cops, the old meanies, broke up their dance... and took them to the Pokey, ca. 1940 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Hot beer, lousy food, ca. 1950 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Liz, ca.1950 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Saturday afternoon show for the youngsters at Loew's Commodore Theater on Second Avenue… Some of the kids brought lunch… lolly pops… ca. 1945 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Trapeze artists, ca. 1951 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  City Hall, Los Angeles, Cal., ca. 1953-­‐55 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Woman and baby sleeping in lounge, Union Station, Denver, 1950 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Foot prints in the sands of Graumans, ca.1950 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  So Does the Denver Police Dept., 1950 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Untitled. Hollywood and Vine, 1950 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Full house, ca.1950 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Weegee in a flashbulb, ca.1953 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Weegee and Andy Warhol at the caterpillar Changes multimedia event, New York, 1967 Unkown Photographer. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  Andy Warhol, ca1967 © Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images  As Is: Carson Drive & Wilshire Blvd., ca.1950 © Weegee. 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