WEEGEE's BEST

Fair use of photograph by Arthur Fellig (Weegee.) To me, this is Weegee's best photograph because it taught me to view images differently forever. I hitherto had thought his work exploitational, but this shot makes any viewer a better human. Why? Acknowledging the true horror on the faces of a mother and daughter watching the rest of the family burning to death in a tenement fire FORCES the viewer to be a more empathatic person. I get weepy every time I see it anew...

For more on Weegee, go to LINK for both his own filmed explanations of style and my ruminations on same.