Edward Kosner is the former editor of Newsweek, New York Magazine, Esquire, and The New York Daily News. He is the author of a memoir, It’s News to Me. (December 2018)
Extra! Weegee: A Collection of 359 Vintage Photographs from 1929–1946
edited by Daniel Blau
Weegee’s people are generally funny-looking and badly dressed. Many of them are murdered—the blood pooling around their heads, some with their ankles oddly crossed as if they are taking a nap in the gutter. Their cars are wrecked, their tenements gutted by fire, their loved ones sobbing in the streets.