SILENT WITNESS: the Construction of Photographic Truth in Forensic Science
SILENT WITNESS: the Construction of Photographic Truth in Forensic Science

Summary/Abstract: This paper will explore the application of forensic photography to the documentation of a crime scene and will examine the construction of the concept of photographic truth that serves to validate the data used for production of forensic claims and thus ensures the objectivity of forensic science.Using a semiotic approach to the study of an image, the article will discuss the double nature of a photograph that represents both an automatic reproduction of reality and a reflection of an author’s subjective vision of it, and it will attempt to raise some questions regarding the legitimacy of photography as an objective method.

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