Images of conviction: the construction of visual evidence

Abstract

This book examines the way experts, researchers and historians produce images as evidence in instances of crimes or acts of violence suffered by individuals or groups.

Contents

The image of truth : photographic evidence and the power of analogy / Jennifer L. Mnookin -- 1903: Alphonse Bertillon : metric photography of crime scenes / Luce Lebart -- 1903: Rodolphe A. Reiss : traces, marks, prints : revealing details invisible to the naked eye / Luce Lebart -- 1902-39: The man of the shroud : the 'first crime photograph' / Luce Lebart -- 1914: War seen from above : before and after bombing / Anthony Petiteau -- 1937-38: The great terror in the USSR : portraits of the victims of State crime / Tomasz Kizny -- 1945: The Nuremberg Trials : confronting the Nazis with the images of their crimes / Christian Delage -- 1985: Mengele's skull : 'the trial of the bones' / Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman -- 1992: The destruction of Koreme, Iraqi Kurdistan : mapping mass graves / Eric Stover -- 2009: The Gaza book of destruction : 'a verification of building-destruction resulting from attacks by the Israeli Occupation' / Eyal Weizman -- 2013: A drone strike in Miranshah : investigating video-testimony / Eyal Weizman -- Forensic Architecture -- 1945-2104: Bedouin land claims in the Negev Desert : history at the threshold of detectability / Eyal Weizman -- Notes on forensics / Eyal Weizman.