25 Vintage Murder Scenes From Old New York

Weegee's eye-catching photograph of crime scenes captures "detail of the city and drama, humor and horror".

If you do not speak about a person named "Weegee", you can not talk about photographs of crime scenes in New York City. Arthur "Weegee" Fellig, the first free tabloid photographer in the country, photographed hundreds of crime scenes in the post-depression post-depression period.

"His sixth crime sensation often leads him a lot before the police.The observer is actually comparing this feeling with this feeling by actually matching his radio to the police frequency.The popular divination In Pinyin 's spelling, Fellig uses Weegee as his professional name. "

"When Weegee was at the bottom of the photo lab, he got his nickname from behind, the task was to dry the prints before sending the newspaper to the newspaper."

Ironically enough, no matter how famous he is, such fun loving person is best known for shooting New York's fresh body with bright black and white photos.

Weegee's revolutionary work is still hard to read today, much worse than anything that the tabloid in the 21st century runs. But that is not without art. As David Gonzalez of the New York Times wrote, Weegee caught "Street Details and Drama, Humor and Horror of the City" by avoiding "the real way of day-to-day police crime scenes photography."

In the above gallery, a lot of photos of Weegee, photos taken by other contemporary photographers, and photographs of crime scenes taken in New York decades after the dirty domination of Weegee were taken.

Is there such aesthetic value in such a terrible collection? Author Tristan H. Kirvin, writer of criminal justice and popular culture journal writer in New York, with yes - asterisk:

"Of course, another mystery is evidence, surveillance or crime scenes photography is art. There may be consensus about the preferred artistic attributes of" realistic "photography, but these pictures reflect little Can not. The feeling of the artist The pain of the life of most people is coincidence. "

Next, look at some of the most horrible mobs that happened in New York and elsewhere in the past few decades. In that case, please look at the more convincing picture taken by Weegee.

It is said that the reaction of the people to the neighbor killing has not changed. According to an article published by the New York Times on December 28, 1974, ten years after Genoesez was killed, a 25-year-old Sandra Seerle died in an apartment in a Christmas morning apartment. Place of Genoa attack. Neighbors said again that they heard a scream and heard "fierce struggle", but did not do anything. 38 Witnesses - This is the story of the police. This is truly a reason for the story. In the course of the investigation over several months, I finally found the document. This is the first interview collection. Strangely, there are 49 witnesses. I was confused until I added my own entry. Some of them are interviews with two or three people living in the same apartment.

This is the twelfth gang related murder case in the neighborhood. After arrest of 20 young people, 11 of them were under the age of 14 and New York never approached the settlement of racial riots after the longest murder trial in New York. Indeed, the judge is convinced that violence will result in bad parenting. Egyptian kings and dragons are two of about 120 youth gangs with about 8,000 members in New York. In this case, the king and the dragon were composed of Puerto Rican and African Americans respectively, but some white gangs were also wandering along the street. They are all contradictory. Since the mid 1940 's, middle class and wealthy white inhabitants have escaped from the suburbs of Manhattan, concerned about the minority taking over. White flight suddenly occurred and the community seemed to change overnight. Abandoned poor and resident of the working class decide to call the new territory their territory