The Perfect Crime: Concerning The Murder Of Reality

Malte Uchtmann & Jan A. Staiger

Weight	740 g
Dimensions	280 × 156 mm
printrun	print-run 1000 copies
Cover	heat sensitive cover, softcover
binding	thread bound
printing	digital printing
coverage	214 pages
Design by	Design by Jan A. Staiger, Malte Uchtmann, Max Heinemann
additional authors	with texts by Karen Fromm, Aldo Legnaro and Andrea Kretschmann
language	English / German
ISBN	ISBN 978-91-987607-2-9
Publisher	published by Kult Books
year	2024

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Germany is a crime fiction country. If wanted, fictional murder and manslaughter can be witnessed many times a day throughout the main television networks. There are more than 238 crime series available on Germany’s six largest broadcasting channels. Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder on German television, The Perfect Crime investigates the effect of crime series on our perception and behaviour. The work examines the use of imaging techniques within police work and its epistemic implications, as well as the question of how fictional narratives change our perception of reality.

The work combines several photographic techniques and approaches: Staiger and Uchtmann have made photographs on the film sets of German crime series, overstageing scenes, leading to an abstraction of what is depicted contrasted with supposedly authentic imagery of corpses and crime scenes. In the portrait series various actors, who played victims and perpetrators in German crime series have been altered by artificial intelligence to create new possible versions of them, linked to the creation of phantom images in real police work. Furthermore, locations that has served as a movie set for a fictional crime scenes are documented as 3D reconstructions via photogrammetric methods.

In the book, the artistic examination is complemented with texts by Karen Fromm, Image Traces: Forensic Media and the Documentary Gaze, and sociologists Aldo Legnaro and Andrea Kretschmann, Crime narratives as narratives of order. (https://kultbooks.com/)

German Photobook Award Bronze Winner (Dummy) 2023