{"product_id":"9781466895621","title":"Evidence","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing \u003ci\u003eLow Life,\u003c\/i\u003e Luc Sante's acclaimed evocation of the underside of New York City's history, \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e is an investigation into the mysteries of crime, death, and photography that only this brilliant and original writer could conduct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one sense \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e is a picture book - a collection of 55 evidence photographs taken by the New York City Police Department between 1914 and 1918. These are startling images, some brutal, some poetic, and all possessed of a strange and spectral beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuc Sante minutely examines these pictures of crime scenes and draws them out by every possible means: speculating about the lives and deaths depicted; discussing the progress of the forensic use of photographs and the mission of photography itself; and, where possible, reconstructing the events that led up to these frozen terminal images. \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e is many things at once: aesthetic object, historical and sociological document, mystery novel, memento mori, and time machine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170488238320,"sku":"9781466895621","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466895621_p0.jpg?v=1769892341","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466895621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}