MetaFilter posts tagged with crime and photography

The Practice of Photography in Sites of Incarceration

mediareport — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:31:55 -0800

Pinhole Photography by Incarcerated Girls at Remann Hall, Washington State. Prison Baseball. Guantanamo: Directory of Photographic and Visual Resources. Painted photographs of forgotten incarcerated Russian youth. 19th century prison ships. Pete Brook's Prison Photography blog links to lots of great stuff.

Love thy Neighbor

doug3505 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:07:46 -0800

Love thy Neighbor Photographer and author Steven Hirsh has photographed the homes of registered New York State sex offenders. A wonderful writer and photographer, this work is chilling, alarming, beautiful. I get that Quentin Tarantino feeling of beauty and disgust. Look at me, nooooo look away. The series of 24 images are on Hirsch's website.

Wanna get ripped off? Buy from these guys!

Sukiari — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:55:45 -0800

Brooklyn thrives on ripping off unaware camera buyers. Here's where these guys operate from...

Chinese crime stories, staged, and photographed.

Dave Faris — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:15:56 -0800

Chinese crime stories, staged, and photographed. (NSFW)

Pictures of Failure

mediareport — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:15:21 -0800

Pictures of Failure: Incarcerated Youth. [via happy palace]

room 101

The Jesse Helms — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 19:28:39 -0800

A crackdown in Texas. America - land of the free. And to guarantee that freedom, everyone has to be constantly watchful. Like the photo store clerk from Eckerd who dutifully reported a Peruvian-born couple's lewd shots of their infants to the Richardson (Dallas/Texas suburbs) police. The photos showed the parents' two infants bathing naked, lying together in bed with their mother (again naked) and the 1-year-old Rodrigo suckling his mother's (naked) breast. So the couple was arrested -- the maximum prison sentence for the crime in question being 20 years -- and the children taken away. (verbatim k5)

Mo Nickels — Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:06:17 -0800

So you read the "Madman and the Professor" and thought it interesting. Edward Ruloff is another murdering philologist with the extra cachet that his 1871 trial for killing a dry-goods clerk was one of the first to test the admissability of photographs as evidence. The Supreme Court agreed with lower rulings that they could be allowed; Ruloff was hanged. In 1845, he had been accused of murdering his wife and child and was imprisoned for ten years for the abduction of his wife, but without a corpus delecti, he could not be convicted for the murder of his child. This man is writing a biography of Ruloff; a publisher could do a lot worse.

BoatMeme — Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:28:15 -0800

Remind me never to cruise for hookers in St. Paul. How's this for a deterrent? Updated weekly.