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Exhibition

U3 Contextual and Cultural Referencing

At the exhibition I observed a presentation of eleven case studies starting at the period of the invention of
‘metric’ photography of crime scenes in the 19th century to the drone attack in Pakistan in 2012 using digital
and satellite technologies to exhibit the work
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When you walking through the gallery, first that you see on the walls are Metric Photography of Crime
Scenes that has been created by Alphonse Bertillon in the 19th century that includes scientific measurements
and records of crime scenes methods in a way that would assist police investigations, judges and juries
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As I’ve noticed, there were titles under each image, stating a place and a year of the
crime
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The images were mostly black&white, but some of
them were sepia toned, dead human’s age is around 30-40 years old, all facing the camera and framed in a
photographic metric paper
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On the images I observed a naked man
silhouette with the stains on the cloth that he has been covered in
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You can see and feel how
scientists and investigators were working hard to identify and compare if this has been a real blood and how
all of this process happened
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Josef Mengel’s skull images impressed me the most because of the terrifying story behind these portraits
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He was called Angel of
Death that tortured and killed thousands of children in grisly experiments
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What I understood about the images at the show, was the way experts are bringing image into status of
evidence, the exhibition was not about historical context as I first thought
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Also the exhibition is bringing us knowledge of new ways of reading, showing and shooting the
images

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