A photographic exhibition with the theme of "crime"

Original title: Image | A photographic exhibition with the theme of "crime"

Photography has both power and limitations when it comes to revealing facts. Power is a power that is more persuasive than words and numbers; limitation is the limitation of not being able to record everything with technology.

Over the centuries, photographs have often been used as evidence of violence and criminal behavior.

An exhibition called Crime Scene: Images from the Shroud of Turin to War Drones is taking place at the Italian Center for Photography in Turin to explore the role of images in documenting crime and disaster. The exhibition covers a variety of cases from crime scenes in the 19th century to digitally reproduced drone attacks in the 21st century. In the middle of the 20th century, criminologist Alphonse Bertillon began to regulate criminal photography with advanced technology.

Other collections include photographic negatives of the Shroud of Turin (the shroud used after jesus' crucifixion) and comparative photographs of the same site before and after the bombing of World War I.

©Archives of the Prefecture of Police of Paris.

The Murder of Monsieur Carnon, Avenue clichy, Paris, 1914.12.09, photographed under the regulations of Alphonse Bedillon

Murdered Lady Langlois, Puteaux, Paris, April 05, 1905, photographed under the regulations of Alphonse Bedillon

Alphonse Bedion shoots standard demonstrations (scene simulations) for teaching materials and classrooms

Sample photo

Cloth used to strangle Mrs. Ducret, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 24.09.1907

Fingerprints printed on wax, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, November 25, 1915

Tools for overprinting fingerprints, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1912.05.13

©Catholic Institute of Paris, Library of Fels.

Turin Shroud photo negative: Blood on the head and forehead, taken by Gisabe Enri (1931-1933)

Photo negative of the Shroud of Turin: Blood on the hands, fingers and wrists, faintly visible polygonal nails with a diameter of 6-7 mm, taken by Gisabe Enri (1931-1933)

Turin Shroud photo negative: head, back, by Sergundo Pia, 1898

Alekseï Grigorievitch Jeltikov, a Russian and former left-wing Communist, was executed in 1937 and was convicted in 1957

Marfa Ilinitchna Riazantseva, a Russian and nonpartisan, was executed in 1937 and was wronged in 1989

Stanisław Rytchardovitch Budkiewicz, a Pole and member of the Left Communist Party, was executed in 1937 and was convicted in 1956

Elizaveta Alekseïevna Voïnova, a Russian and nonpartisan, was executed in 1937 and was rehabilitated in 1989

Duaumont Castle, Verdun, France, aerial photographed on May 20, 1916

Castle du Ormon, Verdun, France, aerial photographed on November 04, 1916

Al-Türi Cemetery, Al-'Araqïb Village, Israel, photographed by Fazar al-Sheikh, 2011.10.09

al-'Araqïb area, British Air Force Palestine Survey Aerial Photography Series No. 5033, 1945.01.05

Al-Türi Cemetery, Picture Detail, No. 5033, 1945.01.05

On November 29, 1945, the defendant before the Nazi concentration camp exhibition, Drage directed the documentary Nuremberg - Les nazis face à leurs crimes (2006) stills

Evidence from Nazi concentration camps is shown, ibid

Model of a new courtroom at the International Tribunal, summer 1945, designed by Dan Kelly

©Official report i.S. of 256 StPD, photo report Mengele, Josef, born 16.03.11 in Güzburg. Federal Criminal Police Office, Wiesbaden, June, 14, 1985, courtesy Maja Helmer

Portrait of Joseph Mengele (doctor at Auschwitz who decided whether every Jew in the camp was poisoned or a Nazi laborer, known as the "Angel of Death"),whose face was marked with 24 black dots

Video clip of a mengele photograph superimposed on a skull made by overprinting, Forensic Laboratory of São Paulo, 1985.06

A cemetery in A-South, northern Iraq, 1992.06

Manuscript locating the first floor of the A-South cemetery, 1992.05-06

Ibid

Document reviewing the damage to buildings caused by the Israeli occupation, Arabic, 2009

Source: Huffington Post

Compilation: Cloud Atlas Editor Lee.