Images of conviction
Subtitle: the construction of visual evidence
By: editor, Diane Dufour ; contributors, Christian Delage ... [and seven others]
Contributors: Bal (Art organization : Paris, France); Photographers' Gallery; Nederlands fotomuseum
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9782365110839
Subjects: Legal photography; Documentary photography; Exhibitions
Description: This book examines the way experts, researchers and historians produce images as evidence in instances of crimes or acts of violence suffered by individuals or groups.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Images of Conviction : the Construction of Visual Evidence held at LE BAL, Paris, 4 June to 30 August, 2015; The Photographer's Gallery, London, 2 October, 2015 to 10 January, 2016; and Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, 22 May to 28 August, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English, translated from French.
Table of contents: title: The image of truth : photographic evidence and the power of analogy  -- Jennifer L. Mnookin; title: 1903:; title: Alphonse Bertillon : metric photography of crime scenes  -- Luce Lebart; title: 1903:; title: Rodolphe A. Reiss : traces, marks, prints : revealing details invisible to the naked eye  -- Luce Lebart; title: 1902-39:; title: The man of the shroud : the 'first crime photograph'  -- Luce Lebart; title: 1914:; title: War seen from above : before and after bombing  -- Anthony Petiteau; title: 1937-38:; title: The great terror in the USSR : portraits of the victims of State crime  -- Tomasz Kizny; title: 1945:; title: The Nuremberg Trials : confronting the Nazis with the images of their crimes  -- Christian Delage; title: 1985:; title: Mengele's skull : 'the trial of the bones'  -- Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman; title: 1992:; title: The destruction of Koreme, Iraqi Kurdistan : mapping mass graves  -- Eric Stover; title: 2009:; title: The Gaza book of destruction : 'a verification of building-destruction resulting from attacks by the Israeli Occupation'  -- Eyal Weizman; title: 2013:; title: A drone strike in Miranshah : investigating video-testimony  -- Eyal Weizman -- Forensic Architecture -- 1945-2104:; title: Bedouin land claims in the Negev Desert : history at the threshold pf detectability  -- Eyal Weizman; title: Notes on forensics -- Eyal Weizman.