IMAGES OF CONVICTION

What can really be learned from an image? Since its origins, how has photography built itself up within a discourse of truth? The bo ok and eponymous exhibition respond to these questions through eleven cases of images produced by experts, researchers and historian s.Whether it be the famous shots of the Shroud of Turin, the legal photographs perfected by Alphonse Bertillon, the first aerial ima ges of the front taken by the army during World War I, the images from the Nuremberg trial, or photos taken with cell phones testify ing to t...[Llegir més]