{"data":{"id":"10450","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":10450,"topgoose_id":1159,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":10450,"title":"This man covered up with newspapers was killed in an auto accident. The driver of the car was arrested, but he put up such a terrific battle...cops had to put handcuffs on him.","display_artist_text":"Weegee","display_date":"1942","accession_number":"96.90.17","dimensions":"Sheet: 10 × 7 15/16 in. (25.4 × 20.2 cm)\r\nImage: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (24.1 × 18.7 cm)","medium":"Gelatin silver print","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Gift of Denise Rich","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eWeegee, \u003cem\u003eThis man covered up with newspapers was killed in an auto accident. The driver of the car was arrested, but he put up such a terrific battle...cops had to put handcuffs on him.\u003c/em\u003e, 1942. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 10 × 7 15/16 in. (25.4 × 20.2 cm)\r\nImage: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (24.1 × 18.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Denise Rich 96.90.17\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the subject of this brutally candid photograph is, in part, a corpse being shrouded in newspapers by a pair of policemen, Weegee was always equally interested in the activity on the periphery of the turmoil, as is evidenced here by his emphasis on the onlookers to the brutal scene. A few bystanders regard the body, but others do not, and one man in particular, on the far left side, seems to look directly at the photographer, implicating him in the drama. Weegee did not plan his images, but the chance details he captured often yielded an additional narrative or editorial element—for example, the ironic contrast between this calamitous scene and the surmounting marquee, which advertises a film titled \u003ci\u003eJoy of Living\u003c/i\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Police officers inspect a body on the sidewalk while a crowd watches outside the Tudor theater.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:32:52.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:21.871-05:00","images":[{"id":101280,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/10450/96_90_17_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"4571","type":"artist"}]}}}}