Crime Scene

It’s an interesting concept, this. A whole bunch of crime scene photographs from the 1950s pulled together to form an exhibition of a very distinctive artistic nature. The police photographers who arrived at the scene had to capture the mood, freeze the clues and imagine the best way to frame the scene for future investigative work. Their efforts, dislocated now from the detective’s notes and court reports, convey the turmoil that confronted them when they entered an ordinary place that hadbeen the scene of extraordinary, horrible deeds.