1st Edition
Visual Culture and the Forensic Culture, Memory, Ethics
By David Houston Jones
Copyright 2022
190 Pages
7 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
190 Pages
7 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
190 Pages
7 Color & 13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art as well as photography.
Contemporary work in these areas responds both to forensic evidence, including crime scene photography, and to some of the... Read more
Introduction 1. Staging the Scene of the Crime 2. Forensic Landscapes 3. Information Forensics 4. The Language of Things 5. The Forensic Face
Biography
David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.
"A lucid and integrated work of exemplary scholarship. Jones has an encyclopaedic command of relevant theory, and of pertinent contemporary and historical examples, and he weaves the two together with rigour and clarity. This book illuminates a cultural phenomenon that will continue to be a significant characteristic of the twenty-first century."
Professor Greg Battye, University of Canberra
