Research Log

Weegee:

http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1842

In this photo we see he has taken a photo of a dead man who it looks like has been batted over the back of the head with something and then proceeded to collapse and bleed out on the floor. This makes the photo more interesting and also because they are in black and white you can where colours end and begin.

Much of Weegees work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. His signature style was was created by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity. An example of this is the image above were he would have followed the police to a murder call and then document what had happened.

Robbert Mapplethorpe:

http://www.mapplethorpe.org/exhibitions/

Here is an image taken by Mapplethorpe that kind of shows his more murderous side of photography.

Mapplethorpe is one of Americas most controversial photographers. Mapplethorpe would normally take photos of his own life that he lived, that being of a gay sexual nature and lots of Mapplethorpe's controversial photography was of gay couples and often contained nudity. Lots of Mapplethorpe's work contained and made people aware of sex, violence, race discrimination and other such things.

Alphonse Bertillon:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/technologies/bertillon_image_8.html

Here we see one of the downwards shots he takes to get the full view of the murder scene with a large tri-pod.

Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. He was also the creator of the mug shot in police work where you would take a photo of the murder suspect.

Angela Strassheim:

http://theexposureproject.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/angela-strassheims-evidence.html

Here we see one of her evidence photos with a hand stain on a wall and a half open door.

Angela Strassheim splices together aspects of criminology and photography into a rather eerie but often very visual photo. She would take photos of places of struggle long after that initial struggle but uses a solution called "blue star" is capable of activating the physical memory of blood though its contact with remaining proteins on the wall, as seen as above with the white on the wall indicating blood.

Teresa Margolles:

https://uk.pinterest.com/molaa/art-we-love-teresa-margolles/

Teresa Margolles collected a string of newspaper articles that showed murder scenes. 

In  1990, Margolles founded an artists' collective titled SEMEFO, which is an anagram for the Mexican coroner's office. Other core members of SEMEFO included Arturo Angulo and Carlos Lopez, yet the group had a loose membership. Through performance and installation-based work, SEMEFO commented on social violence and death in Mexico.

Sally Mann:

http://sallymann.com/

Here we see one of Sally Manns photos depicting a rotting corpse. 

Sally Mann took photos of crime scenes and proceed to take multiple images of crime scenes. She would take photos that exposed mot of the body and normally do them all in black and white for affect. She also took photos of dead rotting bodies that were out in different conditions as an experiment.

Frances Glessner Lee:

http://www.corinnebotz.com/Corinne_May_Botz/project_index.html

Here we see Frances Glessner Lee has set up another one of here doll crime scene depicting a murder with a possible baby because of the teddy bear.

Frances Glessner Lee is a millionaire heiress who revolutionised the study of crime scene investigation. She created "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" which was a series of eighteen intricately designed dollhouse style dioramas which represented a death. She had them on a scale of 1 inch to 1 foot (1:12) scale.

Jeffrey Silverthorne:

http://www.galerievu.com/series.php?id_photographe=25

Here is one of Jeffrey Silverthornes photos depicting death one of the two types of photos he is known for.

Jeffrey Silverthorne is a photographer who mainly takes photos of death and nudity. He would take photos of people in the morgue sometimes straight after death sometimes very late after and he would also take photos of people when they have had an autopsy.

Taryn Simon:

http://tarynsimon.com/works_innocents.php

Here is one of Taryn Simons photos of a victim who was arrested at this place and served time for a crime they didn't commit.

Taryn Simons took photos of people who had served time for a crime they didn't commit at the scene where they were arrested. She wanted to show that these people were innocent for the crimes they were wrongfully convicted for.

Enrique Metinides:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/03/11/enrique_metinides_101_tragedies_of_enrique_metinides_documents_50_years.html

Here we see one of Enriques hots of a tragedy of a woman hit and killed by a car.

Enrique Metinides is a photographer who took photos of tragedies around Mexico over a 50 year period. His photographic style was at first more tabloid photography first focusing on damaged cars but then soon after began looking at the victims and the emergency workers. Most of his photos are in black and white but some are in colour.

David Love:

http://www.thephoblographer.com/2014/01/05/photographer-recreates-famous-horror-flicks-impressive-images/#.VPgxYzrca5Q

Here are one of David Loves horror movie recreation photos.

David Love is a famous cosplay photographer who decided to take photos of horror movie characters in their most terrifying scenes. He doesn't take many photos of horror but some of the photos he takes can be seen as being either horrific or a forensic type of photo.

Danielle Tunstall:

http://www.danielletunstall.com/portfolio/

Here we see Danielle Tunstall has made up a person to look dead with a gas mask on.

Danielle Tunstall is more of a horror photographer and takes photos of images that would inspire fear into the viewer. She does a lot of photos with old gas masks on people and with people wearing hospital gas masks. These images make people think of the war and of death normally. These images are effective in doing that because they are of typical things people fear.

Joshua Hoffine:

https://joshuahoffine.wordpress.com

Here we see a typical movie cliché of a monster under a child's bed.

For lots of Joshua Hoffines work he used his daughter and made monster models to depict lots of movie clichés. His work shows the fear and horror that children have that is related to monsters and the way that they are depicted. He also does this to show that it is an irrational fear because he claims that by doing this his daughter didn't even get nightmares from these.

Emerson Quinn:

http://www.emersonquinn.com/Portfolio/Horror-Dark-Art

Emerson Quinn shows us the horror of a padded cage and the torture of a person in one.

Emerson Quinn does lots of work with dolls to show different murder scenes and different types of torture. He also shows different types of murder in different types of scenes as well to show what types of people will commit the murders.

Morgan MacDonald:

http://themurderinquestion.com/gallery.php

Here we see one of Morgan MacDonalds zombie horror photos.

Morgan MacDonald does lots of horror photos which could be viewed as being rather controversial. He has dome lots of photos that show people with wounds and lots of piercings. The images look like fairly brutal images with lots of brutal wounds.

Thomas G. Anderson:

http://horrorhomework.com/blog/2014/05/formidable-horror-photographer-thomas-g-anderson-is-making-a-film/

Here we see an image of a person in a black cloak.

Thomas G. Anderson shows images of horror images and demonic looking photos. He does some work with skulls and mirror images. All of his images look very horrific and they also seem like they are very old because they have been put into black and white and have an increased amount of noise in the image.

Danielle K.L. Anathema:

http://www.anathemaphotography.com/Art-Portfolio/The-Hunted/1/thumbs

Here we see a half zombie crawling towards the camera but the photographer has used selective colour to keep only the red and make the rest black and white.

Danielle K.L. Anathema uses models and props to create a range of interesting images that can install fear into who ever is viewing the images. She does this successfully by having the right amount of blood and gore in each of the photos. Each photo in her portfolio is different but still flows relatively the same line of image type.

Christopher McKenney:

http://www.christophermckenney.com/work

Here we see one of Christopher McKenneys photos of a bagged man drinking tea that is floating.

Christopher McKenney calls his work horror surrealist. His work is rather vague in the sense that you kind of know what is going on but yet still don't know exactly what is happening in the work. In all of his horror work you can never actually see the face of the person he is taking a photo of.

Decayed Pixels:

http://www.dirgemag.com/behind-scenes-decayed-pixels-photography/

In this Decayed Pixels used tentacles coming out of areas as a sign of death. 

Decayed Pixels is the name the photographer uses to disguises her real name. She odes a lot of horror photos and rather creepy, horrific photos that can be seen as being rather controversial. Even though her photos are controversial they still make a rather interesting image set.

Lauren Freedman:

https://www.facebook.com/lalalaurenphotography/photos_stream?ref=page_internal

Here we see a horror photo depicting a little girls tea party gone horribly wrong and turned into a bloody nightmare.

Lauren Freedman is a horror photographer who depicts rather horrific horror scenes. She does a lot of horror images mainly with females either as a victim or as the horrendous suspect.

Eolo Perfido: 

http://popcornhorror.com/eolo-perfidos-clownville/

Here is one of Eolo Perfidos clown from his Clownville portfolio. It shows a rather scary clown forcing a smile.

Eolo Perfidos does a lot about horror and clowns then he adds rather creepy make-up and places them in dark places. This makes them seem even more horrific then they already are. The reason he does this is to install fear in the viewer of his images.

Work Diary - Shoot 4

Evaluation:
In this shot I had a made-up corpse that I used in the bathroom to make it look like a murder had taken place. I took the photos at different stages of when a "SCENE OF CRIME INVESTIGATION" would have looked at the corpse and what it would look like if the person had also drowned. This was a rather entertaining shoot because I got to create my own murder scene which was rather fun to do. I was also entertaining to think of different ways in which to capture a nuder scene and also different ways in which the murder scene can be replicated.
The one that I think went the best was the shoots I did with the police tape around the door. This is because it was done using entreating camera positions which and lighting. I also took close-up photos of the tape though small areas where you could see the corpse in the background which I think created a rather interesting affect and made it seem rather mysterious and strange, almost like peering though a crack and seeing something that you shouldn't see.

Here we have a rather ominous photo of the victim in a bath tub but you can only see part of them which makes the photo ominous because you can't fully see what happened but can just about make out what has happened by the colour of the water and the wound.

Here we have the rooms door covered in police tape to show that there can be no entrance and that the  scene is off limits.

Progression:
In the next section I would like to see what some external evidence e.g. not a body but a shoe with blood dripping from it. This is because I believe that it would make a rather interesting photo. I also plan to take a photo of a shoe/boot under the pre tense that it is the murders shoe and the blood is that of the victim dripping down on to the shoe from the murder. Also the shoe will look like it has been abandoned and left in the wilderness to be broken down by the environment.
I plan on doing this by dripping blood from about stomach height onto the boot and letting it drip onto the boot. I also plan on creating a forest like area with a tree stump and taking close-up images of it. Then I plan to leave the boot outside for a period of time to allow for the weather to wear away at it for about a month and then take photos of it and have it in a later shot.

Here is an image of a shoe that could belong to either the victim or the culprit.

Here are some gloves that were used to murder someone in someway either to hid the finder prints or to strangle a person.

Straight Images - Shoot 6

Straight Images - Shoot 5

Straight Images - Shoot 4

Work Diary - Shoot 3

Evaluation: 
In this section I experimented with masks and other forms of murder weapons. I placed three masks in different positions to show what a murders MO could be. Part of their ritual for murder. I also had some bloody knifes which would have been used to stab a victim. I think that after this shoot I will end my interest in using masks, at least not having them be the main focus of the shoot. This is because I don't think that this was a very strong shoot because I got rather boring images from my shoot because it was very limited in what I could do.
The only thing that I think went relatively well was that I used some fake blood during this and I think that I managed to get the splatter pattern of the blood the same way it would be if it was an actual stabbing and murder scene. This is because I know how blood interacts with its environment and also how the human body would blue from a stab wound to the stomach.

Here are three knifes from three people next to the masks used in the murder the large the knife the more dominate that is also the same case for the masks. This would be a three person murder where a group would kill as part of their MO then leave masks and the knifes in places. In this image there a multiple calling cards which could indicates a large group of organisation of them.

Here are some knifes covered in blood after a murder. This would be what would happen if multiple knifes were dropped after each stab with the life and how the blood would splat in areas. the splatter pattern in this image looks correct and looks like newly bled blood from an actual murder scene.

Progression:
In my next section I would like to have a look at some dead bodies at some murder scenes and try to recreate my own with some bloody murder weapons. I would also like to see how I can make a fake murder look real. This would be done using a real model and by using clothes with knife wounds on them and also with fake blood on them.

Here we see a murder where the person has been assaulted and killed. Here we see the photographer has taken the shot at a low angle which is something I would like to try out.

Here we see some forensic scientists looking at the body and the photographer has taken the shot behind some police tape.