Jan A. Staiger & Malte Uchtmann: The Perfect Crime
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Keyword: 21st century, Germany, photography, fictional crime, investigation, German photographers
Subtitle: Concerning the Murder of Reality Size: 160 x 280 mm Pages: 213 Format: softcover, heat sensitive cover paper Edition: 1000 copies Language: English, German Illustrations: in colour Text: Karen Fromm, Aldo Legnaro, Andrea Kretschmann Photography: Jan A. Staiger, Malte Uchtmann, Georges Pauly, Markus Fenchel Book design: Max Heinemann, Jan A. Staiger, Malte Uchtmann Publisher: Kult Books Pub Year: 2024 Weight: 721 gr ISBN 13: 9789198760729Description
Article no.: 9789198760729
The Perfect Crime delves into the potential impacts of this media saturation on public perceptions and behaviors. The book explores the integration of imaging techniques in police procedures, their epistemic outcomes, and how fictional crime narratives might warp our reality.
From the publisher:
Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany’s six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, The Perfect Crime investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality.
The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstageing scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. In the portrait series various actors, who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Furthermore, locations that has served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods.
In the book, the artistic examination is complemented with texts by Karen Fromm, Image Traces: Forensic Media and the Documentary Gaze, and sociologists Aldo Legnaro and Andrea Kretschmann, Crime narratives as narratives of order.
From the publisher:
Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany’s six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, The Perfect Crime investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality.
The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstageing scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. In the portrait series various actors, who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Furthermore, locations that has served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods.
In the book, the artistic examination is complemented with texts by Karen Fromm, Image Traces: Forensic Media and the Documentary Gaze, and sociologists Aldo Legnaro and Andrea Kretschmann, Crime narratives as narratives of order.