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Title: | Photographic truth and evidence | Contributor(s): | Porter, Glenn (author); Kennedy, Michael (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | Early Online Version: | 2012-01-25 | DOI: | 10.1080/00450618.2011.634835 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27421 | Abstract: | The application of visual material is becoming increasingly more prominent when presenting forensic evidence in contemporary courts. This paper examines how photographic evidence is used as a means of presenting facts relating to evidence and whether the concept of photographic truth actually exists and advances knowledge. This paper suggests that the obligatory telling of truth when presenting evidence should also extend into the showing of the truth when visual narratives become dominant within forensic evidence. It further challenges the notion that photographs, due to the mechanistic nature of the camera, produce naturally objective and independent evidence that reinforces the search for the truth. Faithful contextualisation of photographic evidence is essential when the reliability of this form of evidence is deliberated. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 44(2), p. 183-192 | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1834-562X 0045-0618 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 190104 Visual Cultures 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 360104 Visual cultures 440299 Criminology not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230499 Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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