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Title: Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886-1902 by Eugenia Parry, Alphonse Bertillon ISBN: 3908247187 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: TRULY TASTEFULL AND SIMPLY SUPERB!
Comment: I truly agree with some of the previous reviews,but let me give you an opinion on someone who knows crime photography well.this book is so well organized as far as text, bescause of the fact that it gives you complete stories behind the photos,plus early crime photos that are magnificent as well as tastefull,(believe me,I've seen some that are much worse,but still very intense photos),makes this book one of the best and most tastefully done works on crime photography I have ever owned!It's not a gore book relying primarily on shock value for it's saleability.Although the only thing it does'nt include is photo type reference,although they are all dated.Take it from a collector of early crime photography,this book is truly a gem!
Rating: 5
Summary: Turn of the Century Noir
Comment: If you're not interested in crime, homocide, early criminological studies, or Paris or have a delicate constitution, don't read this book. However, if these things fascinate you, pay as much as the seller asks because this is a good one. The photos were discovered in Paris by Eugenia Parry, a photography scholar. The photos she found were old Bertillon photos of crime scenes in Paris. Ms Parry then matched the photos to newspaper reports. Some are grotesque, all make you catch your breath: this is what we do to oneanother. Twelve years later came WWI, the trenches, artillery, machine guns and gas. The acts described in this book were not so efficiently conducted. This is a book you won't easily forget.
Rating: 5
Summary: Invisible Masterpiece
Comment: One doen't see or hear about this book anywhere which is a shame as it is so hugely original and compelling. Parry gives life in 19th Century Paris an incredible immediacy in this selection of stories. I found the photographs almost superfluous except that they do remind you that these imagined tales are actually real. Parry dignifies the dead in a way that is a genuine tribute to our humanity (or at least hers) at a time when I'm not convinced we're feeling all that good about ourselves. If you are hesitating, don't! A truly inspiring work.
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Title: Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook by Jack Huddleston, Sean Tejaratchi, Katherine Dunn ISBN: 0922915296 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive by William Hannigan, Luc Sante ISBN: 0847821722 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures by Gail Buckland, Harold Evans ISBN: 0821227750 Publisher: Bulfinch Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Evidence by Luc Sante ISBN: 0374523657 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Gretchen Worden ISBN: 0922233241 Publisher: Blast Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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