Weegee's photographs are both the essences of life and death that speaks with both a senses of humanity and irony. His strange brand of street photography chronicles many deadly crimes on the streets of the New York City. Weegee was often the first on the scene of a murderous crime, there to photograph the raw imagery of street violence, such is the case with such photographs such as "Gunman Killed by Off-Duty Cop at 34 Broome Street (1942)" and "Dead on Arrival …show more content…
By the use subject matter already on the scene Weegee was able to turn a sickly violence image into something ironic and strangely laughable. Such is illustrated in the photo "Joy of Living (1942)" in which the victim of a fatal car accident is sprawled out lifelessly below a theatre marquis advertising the 1938 film Joy of Living.' This sense of irony is once again illustrated in "Just Add Boiling Water (1937)," where a building, advertising frankfurters with the slogan Just Add Boiling Water,' is engulfed in a blaze of flames adding its own ironic caption to the