Photography, Narrative, Time

Imaging our Forensic Imagination

By: Greg Battye (Editor), Alfredo Cramerotti

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eBook | 1 May 2014 | Edition Number 1

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Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the storytelling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive science and psychology to the analysis of photographs. Using genuine forensic photographs of crime scenes and accidents, the book mines human drama and historical and sociological authenticity to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.

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Battye's great accomplishment in this volume is certainly the theoretically sound location of photographs within a theoretical framework of narrative.'