Criminal photography and its aesthetic comments

Photography has a special place in the visual arts, as it is closely related to science. Due to the optical and chemical processes involved during its invention, photography can also be considered as a science. The aim of this thesis is to examine in three chapters the scientific use of photography in forensic and criminal detection, and to comment on the aesthetic qualities thereof, and its use within of art photography.The first chapter, titled `The History of Criminal Photography?, will cover the invention of photography and the science involved; the history, early use and the techniques used in forensic and criminal detection photography.In the second chapter titled, `Criminal (Forensic) Photography and Violation of Privacy Photography?, is discussed in terms of the crime scene. In this chapter, press photography is discussed using the photographic examples of photographers; Weegee, Lettizia Battaglia and Enrique Metinides; and is also examined conceptually in the context of Sophie Calle?s series, `Hotel?.In the third, and the final chapter, `Aesthetic Comments on Criminal Photography?, the visual and content of criminal photography is exemplified aesthetically. In this chapter, the concept of `death?, which is very decisive in terms of the criminal, is given special attention. For this reason, the understanding of the many approaches of the forensic and criminal investigation techniques regarding death in relation to the crime scene are important. This final, third section concludes with the artistic and aesthetic approaches to death via the works of photographers such as Witkin and Serrano; in the context of the commercial fashion images executed by Guy Bourdin, in the `post-modern? perspective of the work of Izima Kaoru and Melanie Pullen, with the staging of a death of fashion; and Erwin Olaf?s `Royal Blood? series that presents an inter-dimensional journey in layers of reality.In conclusion, this study will have presented, with the examples, different presentations of criminal photography in the context of aesthetic comments.