Evidence: NYPD Crime Scene Photographs: 1914-1918

Evidence: NYPD Crime Scene Photographs: 1914-1918 by Luc Sante. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780760784136.

In Evidence, Luc Sante, the author of Low Life, offers an eerie, insiders visit to the scene of the crime. This collection of rarely seen evidence photographs, taken by the New York City Police Department between 1914 and 1918, presents startling images, some brutal, some poetic and all possessed of a strange and spectral beauty. In his introduction, Sante explains his attraction to this murderous gallery: "Here was a true record of the texture and grain of a lost New York, laid bare by the circumstances of murder. Lives stopped by razor or bullet were frozen by a flash of powder......