Photography, Narrative, Time: Imaging our forensic imagination

Providing a wide-ranging account of the narrative properties of photographs, Greg Battye focuses on the story-telling power of a single image, rather than the sequence. Drawing on ideas from painting, drawing, film, video, and multimedia, he applies contemporary research and theories drawn from cognitive science and psychology to the analyses of photographs. Using genuine forensic photographs of crime scenes and accidents, the book mines human drama and historical and sociological authenticity to argue for the centrality of the perception and representation of time in photographic narrativity.