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Book Description: Scalo, 2000. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. A Brand New copy, unused and unread. Dispatched by next working day from Hereford, UK. We can now offer First Class Delivery for UK orders received before 12 noon, with same-day dispatch (Monday-Friday). Bookseller Inventory # mon0000329046

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Book Description: SCALO, 2005. Couverture rigide. Book Condition: Neuf. Dust Jacket Condition: Neuf. Art historian and critic Parry (The Short Story and Photography 1880s-1980s: A Critical Anthology, Univ. of New Mexico, 1998) became obsessed with an album of graphic photographs depicting actual crimes scenes and victims in Paris at the turn of the last century. Taken mostly by Alphonse Bertillon, who largely created the modern practice of crime documentation and suspect identification, the photos are of historical importance. But Parry rejected a straightforward presentation of the material, writing several stories based on groupings of crime photos. Her style blends enough of the objective documentarian and the horrified observer to work perfectly. Her fictions elucidate the crucial moments in the lives of the victims and murderers, like the photos themselves, in gruesome detail, raising questions about the ability of photos to capture truth and our own capacity to understand a crime fully. The photographs themselves are so compelling and disturbing that it would be difficult to imagine a prose that could complement them, but here word and image serve each other well. An unusual addition for academic and large public crime and photography collections. -Douglas McClemont, New York Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Photography in New York, Spring 2001 - International Center for Photography Winner of the 17th Annual Infinity Award for Writing, 2001 Voir l'ensemble des Descriptions du produit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Détails sur le produit Relié: 319 pages Editeur : Scalo; Édition : illustrated edition (14 septembre 2005) Langue : Anglais ISBN-10: 3908247187 ISBN-13: 978-3908247180. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-2414489693

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