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Original – Blood stains on the clothes of suspect Albert Marco—captured on a glass-plate negative by a Los Angeles Times news photographer at the Venice police station the morning after a shooting at the Ship Cafe—suggest the nature of Marco's alleged crimes, and illustrate the brutality of the Los Angeles underworld of the 1920s and 1930s
Restoration by Adam Cuerden
Reason
Documentary photo depicting the real-world origins of film noir's compelling black-and-white aesthetic and fairly clear evidence of recent violence of some nature; more specifically this image just stops me in my tracks every time I encounter it again; pretty sure it was never published by the Times but it was surfaced by UCLA archivists after the Times donated their photo morgue to UCLA and it has since been published in at least one history of the crime syndicates that ran Los Angeles during the Great Depression era
Articles in which this image appears
Albert Marco
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People
Creator
Unidentified Los Angeles Times photographer, digitized by UCLA Libraries, uploaded by User:Jengod