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Jan Staiger, Malte Uchtmann

THE PERFECT CRIME: Concerning the Murder of Reality

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THE PERFECT CRIME: Concerning the Murder of Reality – 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, overstageing 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‘.

  • design : Malte Uchtmann, Jan Staiger, Max
  • date of publication : april 2024
  • language : EN
  • pages : 216 p.
  • format : 28 x 15.5 x 2
  • impression : offset
  • tirage : 1000 copies
  • binding : Silk screened, thermochromic softcover
    Swiss bound book with foldouts
    Elastic band closure
  • ISBN : 9789198760729
  • publishers : Kult Books
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