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The Burns Archive, known for its 1980s studies of derangement of the mind and body and photographic histories of medicine and death, extends that study of crime with Deadly Intent: Crime & Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive.
The book is divided into four sections: crime scenes, police action, punishment, and executions. It is concentrated between 1890 and 1950, a time when criminals often admitted their crimes and were quickly punished. Until the late 1940s, the period from arrest to execution for a capital offense averaged 33 days. The change in police attitudes and of the punishment prescribed for criminal behavior is documented here in iconic photographs.
Unlike many previous works on the subject, this compilation of crime scenes gives readers a forensic view, offering entire series of images used by detectives and criminologists. Other photographs reveal the evolving standards of the American criminal justice system, from water torture at Sing Sing prison, whipping posts, penitentiary life, and the notorious deadly work camps of the South, to executions: hanging, firing squads, and the electric chair. Only when all the evidence is presented can justice and humanity be properly served. This compilation of images, most published here for the first time, is a valuable new resource for historians and researchers.
The book is divided into four sections: crime scenes, police action, punishment, and executions. It is concentrated between 1890 and 1950, a time when criminals often admitted their crimes and were quickly punished. Until the late 1940s, the period from arrest to execution for a capital offense averaged 33 days. The change in police attitudes and of the punishment prescribed for criminal behavior is documented here in iconic photographs.
Unlike many previous works on the subject, this compilation of crime scenes gives readers a forensic view, offering entire series of images used by detectives and criminologists. Other photographs reveal the evolving standards of the American criminal justice system, from water torture at Sing Sing prison, whipping posts, penitentiary life, and the notorious deadly work camps of the South, to executions: hanging, firing squads, and the electric chair. Only when all the evidence is presented can justice and humanity be properly served. This compilation of images, most published here for the first time, is a valuable new resource for historians and researchers.
著者について
Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS, a practicing New York City ophthalmic surgeon, is also an internationally distinguished photo-historian, author, lecturer, curator, and collector. Over the last three decades he collected over 800,000 images, including what is perhaps the most comprehensive private collection of crime, forensic, lynching, prison, and execution photography. Dr. Burns has published criminology photographs in collections including Harm’s Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem (Twin Palms, 1994) and produced the memorial photography collection Sleeping Beauty (Twelvetrees Press, 1990). In 2006, the Burns Archive released Patients & Promise: A Photographic History of Mental and Mood Disorders, presenting photographs of mentally ill criminals. Dr. Burns has also worked on several episodes of Autopsy, the critically acclaimed HBO forensic documentary series.
Sara Cleary-Burns has been involved in the art world for many years. Since 1985 she has chosen to concentrate on photography as art, specializing in early hand-colored images in their original frames, as well as manipulated photographs. In pursuit of these interests she turned her hand to mounting and presenting museum exhibitions, such as the highly successful Forgotten Marriage, which toured throughout the United States. As an archivist, administrator, fundraiser, and publicist, she has been involved with some of the major photographic collections of the United States.
Sara Cleary-Burns has been involved in the art world for many years. Since 1985 she has chosen to concentrate on photography as art, specializing in early hand-colored images in their original frames, as well as manipulated photographs. In pursuit of these interests she turned her hand to mounting and presenting museum exhibitions, such as the highly successful Forgotten Marriage, which toured throughout the United States. As an archivist, administrator, fundraiser, and publicist, she has been involved with some of the major photographic collections of the United States.
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Sleeping Beautyに使われてる写真が表紙だったのと、購入当時はそれほどお値段も高くなかったので試しに購入したのですが、表紙が一番まともでした（苦笑）内容が判ってたら買わなかったかも。ネットの普及でカラーのグロ画像は食傷気味の方も多かろうと思いますが、こちらはまだ写真が貴重だった時代の殺人事件や事故現場の写真集です。有名な事件の被害者の殺害現場やご遺体の写真が幾つか掲載されております。「変わり果てた姿で発見された･･･」と表現されるご遺体はこのような状態なのかと心が痛みます。グロテスクが苦手な方にはお勧め出来ませんが、全てモノクロ写真です。資料としては良いものかも知れないです。安く手に入れたので★４つ。
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15 人中、15人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A peek under the rock of crime
2009/2/1
形式:ハードカバー
This latest book from the Burns archive presents an intriguing overview of death and disaster from two perspectives: individual criminal and State controlled killings between 1890 and 1950. The book also looks at punishment and police activity.
The first chapter: Crime Scenes cover death and other criminal activity in photographic detail with plenty of those remarkably unemotional forensic images that the authorities (and possibly juries) only get to see though in the past they must have been common in tabloid papers and detective magazines, least the less horrific photos. The fourth chapter: Executions has a selection of historical official death defined by the culture it has been carried out in. China favored beheading, Spain the garrote, Japan carried out the last crucifixion in 1864 and the Nazis extensively used the guillotine, which is something I was not aware of.
Two chapters: Crime Scenes and Police Action fill up well over half the book. The police, in the past, seem to be strong on posing with the bad guys (dead or alive) knowing that popular papers would run the photos. Editors knew their readers could never get too much true crime reporting. Apart from the dead bodies in Crime Scenes there are several that would seem rather bland: part of a fence; an open window; a street scene but one of the strengths of the book are the very detailed captions that make the most dull photo come alive.
I've given the book four stars because I was rather put off by the editorial style. All the photos are presented in a rather minimalist format with plenty of white page space (it does look rather incongruous to see historical images displayed like this) and it certainly would have helped if the subbing had been more rigorous: there are plenty of paragraphs several hundred words in length, unfortunately set in a rather small typeface with a long line length. Basically this is not the easiest book to read. I would have thought an index would have been essential in a publication like this.
WARNING I think it is worth mentioning that throughout the book there are plenty of photos showing dead bodies (including close-ups) and in particular the Crime Scene chapter features several with severe mutilations.
***SEE SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
The first chapter: Crime Scenes cover death and other criminal activity in photographic detail with plenty of those remarkably unemotional forensic images that the authorities (and possibly juries) only get to see though in the past they must have been common in tabloid papers and detective magazines, least the less horrific photos. The fourth chapter: Executions has a selection of historical official death defined by the culture it has been carried out in. China favored beheading, Spain the garrote, Japan carried out the last crucifixion in 1864 and the Nazis extensively used the guillotine, which is something I was not aware of.
Two chapters: Crime Scenes and Police Action fill up well over half the book. The police, in the past, seem to be strong on posing with the bad guys (dead or alive) knowing that popular papers would run the photos. Editors knew their readers could never get too much true crime reporting. Apart from the dead bodies in Crime Scenes there are several that would seem rather bland: part of a fence; an open window; a street scene but one of the strengths of the book are the very detailed captions that make the most dull photo come alive.
I've given the book four stars because I was rather put off by the editorial style. All the photos are presented in a rather minimalist format with plenty of white page space (it does look rather incongruous to see historical images displayed like this) and it certainly would have helped if the subbing had been more rigorous: there are plenty of paragraphs several hundred words in length, unfortunately set in a rather small typeface with a long line length. Basically this is not the easiest book to read. I would have thought an index would have been essential in a publication like this.
WARNING I think it is worth mentioning that throughout the book there are plenty of photos showing dead bodies (including close-ups) and in particular the Crime Scene chapter features several with severe mutilations.
***SEE SOME INSIDE PAGES by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
8 人中、6人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The cover is merely a snippet of what is inside this book! Truly deadly!
2010/4/25
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The picture on the cover is so sad! An entire family murdered! I just had to find out what heinous lowlife could have done something like that! Surely he was a lowlife and tried to save himself in the end. The rest of the photos are also pretty shocking. What people can do to others and themselves is certainly a subject that volumes of photographs can be taken and compiled. Certainly sobers one to view the people in the photos.
4 人中、3人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Another Burns Classic
2009/8/28
形式:ハードカバー|Amazonが確認した購入
Chilling and disturbing, yet oddly beautiful. Large, detailed photos and interesting text make this an engrosing read. I have 4 Burns Archive books and love them all.
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