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Wednesday
Mar172010

CRIME: AUSTRALIA

Here are are some amazing photographs from various Australian archives (there will be a separate post on the amazing portraits from the Sydney Police Archive). I read a great academic (art/media criticism) paper written by a Caleb Williams on an Australian Crime archive. He uses many of classic media theorists, Barthes, Baudrillard, Sontag, Benjamin et. al. to address the archive and best of all there are great pictures. 

"It is about photography as testimony, photography working as a rationally-based evidence collecting activity, but also about each crime scene photograph as a receptacle for catching and commemorating something more; atmospheres that are disturbed and wounded, scenes not of visible horror, but of horror suspected, of horror that has recently happened but is no longer evident."

That element of a "horror that has recently happened but is no longer evident" somehow makes the images that don't contain people (alive or dead) like the car wreck and especially the stairwell seem more morbid than the - literally morbid images - of crime victims. 





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Wednesday
Mar172010

CRIME: WEEGEE

Arthur Fellig AKA Weegee is generally (if not entirely accurately) considered the father of crime-scene photography and the 'police beat.' He pioneered new developments in flash and low-light photography and 'exposed' the nocturnal life in New York to the public eye for the first time. It is interesting to think that photographic coverage would be dictated by technological limitations, but prior to him news photographs were more-often-than-not taken in high light situations, outdoors, on stage or with cumbersome and dangerous magnesium flashes.
Weegee had a police radio in his car and in some cases he was known for beating the officers to the scene of the crime. He would develop his film on-site in the trunk of his car. His workflow anticipated the lifestyle of any stringer or wire photographer decades later. The history of his work is also interesting because it is a classic example of 'practical' photography and its recuperation into the art/art history discourse. There is also a nifty NYT slideshow about him here.

 

“Gunman Killed by Off-Duty Cop at 344 Broome Street”

 

“Weegee at a Murder” (1942)

 

 
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