Visual Culture and the Forensic - Culture, Memory, Ethics

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 performance and installation art, as well as photography.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Staging the Scene of the Crime 2. Forensic Landscapes 3. Information Forensics 4. The Language of Things 5. The Forensic Face

About the author

David Houston Jones is Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.

Summary

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 performance and installation art, as well as photography.

Product details

• Authors: David Houston Jones, David Houston (University of Exeter Uk) Jones, Jones David Houston
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367420932
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42093-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Photography & photographs, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Forensic Science, Criminal or forensic psychology, Performance Art, Photography and photographs, The arts: general topics