Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers...
Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers...
Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Chronicle Books, c1997.
Call Numbers
NQ363.258/2
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
132 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Contents
Foreword and Acknowledgments / Lori Fogarty -- 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 Tabloids in the 1930s / Carol Squiers.
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Publisher
San Francisco : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Chronicle Books, c1997.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c1997.
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Scope and Contents
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...
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Full title
Police pictures : the photograph as evidence / Sandra S. Phillips, Mark Haworth-Booth, Carol Squiers.
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Notes
General note
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.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
c1997.
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NQ363.258/2
Record Identifier
74VMbb2kBwzy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMbb2kBwzy
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ISBN
0811819841
9780811819848
DDC
363.258
MMS ID
991000893249702626
