The International Center of Photography’s upcoming Weegee exhibit shall be bountiful with lurid highlights from the photojournalist’s career capturing crime scenes, murder victims, homicide trials and other film noir fodder, minus the glitz. A storied New York newspaper freelancer of the 1930s and 1940s, Weegee had a brief and productively miserable time as a Hollywood paparazzi, but soon returned home “to civilization,” corpses and cops. The exhibit will include “environmental recreations of Weegee’s apartment and exhibitions.” Ooh, time warp. “Weegee: Murder Is My Business,” Jan 20–Sep 2, International Center of Photography, NYC
Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf recruited Kid Cudi and Cage to star as “serial killers” in this ten minute faux-docu short Maniac. Lots and lots of Murder. French subtitles. Desaturated post-pro. Blood everywhere. Plot nowhere. Read more »
Half a decade since renowned war journalist and Kremlin corruption critic Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her stairwell, a retired Russian cop has been arrested on suspicion of organizing the killing. After years of mysterious dead ends, shoddy investigation and botched trials, this latest development only worsens the notorious rumors of government involvement in the slaying. Read more »
The “West Memphis Three” were released from jail today after serving 18 years for brutal murder and torture of three boys in Arkansas. They were subjects of the 1996 doc Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, whose makers fought to prove their innocence. Read more »
Photographer Deborah Luster continues her New Orleans chronicles with the series Tooth for an Eye. These recent sites of shootings and stabbings – Katrina-ravaged houses, Banksy-stenciled corners and empty streets – appear indifferent. The evidence of murder had become absorbed into continuous urban decay, but it still tallies into New Orleans’ status as US’s homicide capital. “Tooth for an Eye,” Deborah Luster, Jan 6 – Feb 5, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
Is Victim’s Photo of his Murderer Too Disturbing for You?
There’s a bit of commenter tiff over at PetaPixel where some people think that this photograph taken by a politician moments before his own assassination is too disturbing for a blog about photography. The suspects are still at large, but they wouldn’t have been identified had the photo not been published on the cover of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. How willingly ignorant does one have to be not ignore this photograph’s significance? Here’s one such whiner who unfairly forced Michael Zhang of PetaPixel to apologize for posting the photo. Read more »
A wanted person of interest in the murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen committed suicide. He might have been a paid hit man. Still think the Quaids’ “star whackers” story is wacky?
Just like that middle school quarterback who nonchalantly strolled past an entire defense line and ran into the end zone on a trick play, a suspect in the murder of a man in a Brooklyn doughnut shop casually ducked under some police tape that an officer was busily stringing up and gingerly strolled away. It wasn’t until eyewitnesses notified the police that the man was taken into custody.
A 21-year-old man was fatally stabbed and he died on the sidewalk in front of his building on East Seventh Street. Gawker a very graphic photo of the murder scene, so don’t click if you’re scared of blood/dead people.
After attacking an adult Canada goose, a crazed, bloodthirsty swan killed two baby geese in Prospect Park on Sunday afternoon. It reportedly snatched the yellow goslings by their necks and dropped them into the lake where they floated around like mob murder victims. RIP! |City Room|
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