Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947)[1] was an American bookkeeper who died by suicide by jumping from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. A photograph taken four minutes after her death by photography student Robert Wiles subsequently gained iconic status, being referred to as "the most beautiful suicide"
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And its cultural representation.
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Andy Warhol used Wiles' photo
in one of his prints entitled
Suicide (Fallen Body) |
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Her picture was also used on the cover
of Saccharine Trust's album Surviving You,
Always, released in 1984 by SST Records |
