"'Weegee linked these distortions to a medium that was tied to the truth,' Wallis said, 'and he linked the distortions to the distortion of celebrity itself, in which the celebrities distorted reality with acting, the look of their bodies and their personas.' Marilyn Monroe's face, her biological logo, is twisted like a Francis Bacon painting, or a funhouse mirror under Weegee's mischievous manipulations. Lucile Ball becomes a Coney Island caricaturist's bad day. Slaughtering sacred cows was his business, and in Hollywood the abattoir was full."
Drew Tewksbury in the LA Weekly reviews the exhibit "Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles" at MOCA.
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