The Perfect Crime: Concerning the Murder of Reality

Jan A. Staiger, Malte Uchtmann

ISBN 10: 9198760726 / ISBN 13: 9789198760729

Published by Kult Books, SE, 2024

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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, overstaging 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 have served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods, referring to the potential emergence of so-called 'fear spaces'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Perfect Crime: Concerning the Murder of Reality
• Publisher: Kult Books, SE
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9198760726
• ISBN 13: 9789198760729
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 650 grams

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Synopsis

The work employs diverse photographic techniques and Staiger and Uchtmann captured scenes on German crime series film sets, staging them to create abstract images that contrast with supposedly genuine crime scene and corpse imagery. In a portrait series, actors who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series were altered using artificial intelligence to generate new possible versions, mirroring the creation of phantom images in real police work. Additionally, locations used as movie sets for fictional crime scenes were documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods, alluding to the potential emergence of so-called 'fear spaces'.