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Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers.
- Title
- Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers.
- Author
- Phillips, Sandra S., 1945-
- Publication
- San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Chronicle Books, c1997.
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- Description
- 132 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- v – Exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 17, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998, and at the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, May 19-July 18, 1998.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0811819841
- LCCN
- ^^^97014539^
- OCLC
- 36824734
- SCSB-11319153
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library