The Most Beautiful Suicide, 01/May/1947

Saw this image whilst surfing on web. I don't think words are enough to describe the feeling it gives. When you first look at the photograph, you don't think it's real, almost like it's a set up scene and she isn't actually dead. And I guess that is the part that I become speechless,  that fact that she looks so much in peace.
The interesting and eerie story behind the image has also been beautifully reflected using an important element in photography: form.

Some images do not include an interesting content but an interesting (and simply beautiful looking) form, like Edward Weston's Pepper. But with the image The Most Beautiful Suicide we can see that when the use of form and content are combined, the outcome will most probably be impressive.

"On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure."