Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers.

Main entry:

Phillips, Sandra S., 1945-

Title & Author:

Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers.

Publication:

Description:

132 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 17, 1997-Jan. 20, 1998, and at the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center at New York University, May 19-July 18, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references.
Identifying the criminal / Sandra S. Phillips -- "A camera eye as rare as a pink zebra" / Mark Haworth-Booth -- "And so the moving trigger finger writes" : dead gangsters and New York taboids in the 1930s / Carol Squiers.

Summary:

The mug shot, the scene of the crime, photographic evidence - all of these are predicated on the belief that the photograph shows the truth, unvarnished and indisputable. But does it? In a remarkable survey of over 120 images from public and private sources, Police Pictures questions the conjunction of photography and enforcement and challenges the ability of image to represent the truth. From haunting photographs of the Lincoln conspirators to Weegee's sordid murder victims and the prisoner portraits taken by the Khmer Rouge, Police Pictures explores the policing function of photography - and the controversial manipulations of images by and for the forces of authority - in a catalogue of the power of the law and the lens.

ISBN:

0811819841
9780811819848
0918471427
9780918471420

Subject:

Criminals Portraits Exhibitions.
Criminal anthropology Exhibitions.
Criminal investigation Exhibitions.
Photography Exhibitions.
Criminels Portraits Expositions.
Anthropologie criminelle Expositions.
Enquêtes criminelles Expositions.
Photographie Expositions.
Criminal anthropology
Criminal investigation
Photography
Polizei
Fotografie
Ausstellung
San Francisco (Calif., 1998)

Form/genre:

Ausstellung San Francisco (Calif.) 1998.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
portraits.
Portraits
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Haworth-Booth, Mark.
Squiers, Carol, 1948-
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Grey Art Gallery & Study Center.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200350
Call No.: HV6071.P48 1997
Status: Available

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