Shot dead: Weegee's murder photographs go on show – in pictures
Anthony Esposito, booked on suspicion of killing a policeman, 16 January 1941 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyAt an East Side murder, 1943 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyBody of Dominick Didato, Elizabeth Street, 7 August 1936Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of Photography
Girl jumped out of car, and was killed, on Park Ave, c1938 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyHats in a pool room, Mulberry Street, c1943 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyHold-up man killed, 24 November 1941 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyLineup for night court, c1941Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyMurder, c1940Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyPolice officer and assistant removing body of Reception Hospital ambulance driver Morris Linker from East River, 24 August 1943Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyPolice officer and lodge member looking at blanket-covered body of woman trampled to death in excursion-ship stampede, 18 August 1941Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of Photography'Ruth Snyder Murder' wax display, Eden Muse, Coney Island, c1941 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyThe dead man's wife arrived … and then she collapsed, c1940Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyUnidentified photographer on the Spot, 9 December 1939 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyInstallation view of 'Weegee: Murder Is My Business II' at the Photo League Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyInstallation view of 'Weegee: Murder Is My Business' at the Photo League, 1941 Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyInstallation view of 'Weegee: Murder Is My Business' at the Photo League, 1941Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of PhotographyInstallation view of 'Weegee: Murder Is My Business' at the Photo League, 1941Photograph: Weegee/International Centre of Photography
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