The First Murder (1941) "A woman relative cried...but neighborhood dead-end kids enjoyed the show when a small-time racketeer was shot and killed," wrote Weegee in the caption accompanying this startling photograph in his 1945 publication Naked City. On the facing page Weegee showed the bloody body lying in the street. Alternately laughing, staring in disbelief, or looking into the camera to grasp their own momentary chance to be recorded, the children who had witnessed this grisly scene form an unsettling amalgam of human emotion and self-absorption. Two women are among the group: one, whom Weegee mentioned above, stands at the center, her face contorted with anguished tears, her personal loss turned into public spectacle. Photo: Weegee Photographer: Weegee Weegee emphasizes the untold reality or murder and crime in New York through his photography. In his work "The First Murder" (1941) he uses a foreground full of people is what appears as chaos to contrast the desolate background. This is done to the effect of showing the hysteria surrounding events like murder and their societal implications in New York. Furthermore, this contrasting background and foreground could be viewed as a juxtaposition between societal reaction and physical reaction to events.
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