[214] Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

De cuando en vez se mencionan estas miniaturas donde se reproducen en detalle escenas de crimen para entrenar a los nuevos agentes forenses.  Habia visto un articulo en Details de varios a/nos atras donde supe que esto existia.  Armar maquetas es interesante...cuando le pones una historia.

Este articulo me recordo lo impresionante e interesante de conceptualizar escenas de crimen como si fuera una casita de mu/necas...Lo encontre interesante, debido a que en la era en que se hizo era revolucionario y su constructora lo hizo en sus 50s.  En un ambiente machista...Sinceramente impresionante.  Y lo dejo simple, mas detalles en los links.

Churn out...

http://www.metafilter.com/109826/Interestingly-she-advanced-in-a-male-dominated-field-by-coopting-the-feminine-tradition-of-miniatures

"Interestingly, she advanced in a male dominated field by co-opting the feminine tradition of miniatures."
November 27, 2011 7:40 AM

"The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death": an exploration of a collection of eighteen miniature crime scene models that were built in the 1940's and 50's by a progressive criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878 – 1962). The models, which were based on actual homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths, were created to train detectives to assess visual evidence. This seven-year project culminated in an exhibition and a book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (The Monacelli Press, 2004). [Image Gallery]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Glessner_Lee

She was inspired by a classmate of her brother, George Burgess Magrath, who was just getting his MD from Harvard Medical School and was particularly interested in death investigation.[1][2] They remained close friends until his death in 1938. Magrath became a chief medical examiner in Boston and together they lobbied to have coroners replaced by medical professionals. Glessner Lee endowed the Harvard department of legal medicine (in 1931, the first such department in the country),[3] a chair in the field, the George Burgess Magrath Library,[1][4] and Harvard Associates in Police Science, a national organization for the furtherance of forensic science, one division of which is the Frances Glessner Lee Homicide School.[5] The Harvard program influenced other states to change over from the coroner system. Magrath became the department's first Chair.

Through the 1940s and 1950s, Lee hosted a series of semi-annual "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death." 30 or 40 leading crime scene investigators would be invited to a week-long conference, where she would present them with an intricately constructed diorama of actual crime scenes, complete with working doors, windows, and lights. They would have 90 minutes to study the scene. The week culminated in a banquet at the Ritz Carlton.[1][4] The 18 dioramas are still used for training purposes by Harvard Associates in Police Science.[5]

For her work, Lee was made an honorary Captain in the New Hampshire State Police in 1943, the first woman in the US to hold that rank.[3][5]

Mas aqui:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-02-24/news/9902240040_1_forensic-science-police-science-1930s-and-1940s
http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/09/frances-glessner-lee-html
http://harvardmag.com/pdf/2005/09-pdfs/0905-36.pdf

Las fotos incluidas aqui son parte de una exhibicion fotografica de Corinne May Botz, que publico un libro al respecto.

http://www.corinnebotz.com/Corinne_May_Botz/Nutshell_Studies.html


"The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" is an exploration of a collection of eighteen miniature crime scene models that were built in the 1940's and 50's by a progressive criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878 – 1962). The models, which were based on actual homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths, were created to train detectives to assess visual evidence. This seven-year project culminated in an exhibition and a book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (The Monacelli Press, 2004).

The models display an astounding level of precision and detail: shades can be raised and lowered, mice live in the walls, stereoscopes work, whistles blow and pencils write. My photographs highlight the models’ painstaking detail, as well as the prominence of female victims. Through framing, scale, lighting, color, and depth of field, I attempt to bring intimacy and emotion to the scene of the crime. I want viewers to feel as if they inhabit the miniatures - to loose their sense of proportion and experience the large in the small.

In addition to creating over 100 photographs of the models, I spent years researching and writing about the female criminologist who conceived and built the models, Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962). I considered Lee my collaborator, and as a woman artist, it was important for me to unearth her story and make it known. My writing explores how Lee’s experience of domestic space informed her creations. Lee followed the role prescribed for her as an upper-class woman, but domestic life never suited her. The houses where she lived were a place of refuge, personal expression, and pride, but they were also a source of disempowerment and anxiety. While she was unhappy with the roles she was forced into as a woman, she maintained assumptions about a woman’s place in the home. Interestingly, she advanced in a male dominated field by co-opting the feminine tradition of miniatures

The models undermine the notion of the home as a safe haven and reveal it to be a far more complex sphere. All of the models depict lower middle class interiors, and the majority of victims are women who suffered violent deaths in the home.

Reflexiones Sobre La Violencia Policiaca

Un nuveo ciclo de violencia comienza, con varios casos donde la Policia de Puerto Rico dispara primero y pregunta despues. A mi personalmente me han impactado de sobremanera el asesinato del joven en Altamira, que hizo lo que dice el anuncio, de ayudar al Policia como deber civico. Mas aun el asesinato del anciano a manos de unos policias que iban a allanar su casa.





Aunque no soy de ver television estos dias estas noticias resuenan en mi ser, tratando de buscarle un sentido. Pudiesemos ser llanos, y solo decir que es un asunto centralizado en la Policia, pero la realidad es otra. Hay violencia de todo tipo. Unos contra otros, por cualquier estupidez, sea esta religiosa, de clases sociales, de ideologias politicas o de lo que sea.





Valoramos tan poco la vida.





Asi que hice un boceto en lapiz de lo que paso con el anciano en la oscuridad de la noche, mienras iba en el tren pasadas las 8 de la noche. Era un boceto malisimo pero trabajo en una idea. Mientras el anciano iba temiendo por su vida estos policias trigger happy pensaban que era un juego de video. No es la primera vez que esto ocurre. En la pasada huelga los mensajes de los policias hablaban de tumbar cabezas y cobrar cuentas viejas. Me tumbaste la pajita del hombro, ahora te tumbo la cabeza a macanazos.




Necesitamos cambiar de actitudes. No creo que nuestro superintendente sea el mejor ejemplo de tolerancia y respeto. Nos gusta el jaqueton y el sinverguenza. Somos del reino donde nuestras referencias noticiosas vienen de La Comay.



Por aquello de ayudar a nuestros amigos extranjeros, algunos articulos relacionados al asesinato:

http://www.vocero.com/noticias/ley-y-orden/14444.html

http://www.vocero.com/noticias/44-ultimas-noticias/14357-policia-mata-individuo.html

http://www.elnuevodia.com/policiasmatanaancianoqueintentoevitarallanamientoensucasa-788903.html



Comienzo dando unos links al asunto de la violencia y sus origenes. Este articulo de Forbes da una idea. Si nos desensibilizamos al dolor ajeno, si mo somos empaticos, cometeremos atrocidades:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/15/forbes-india-david-livingstone-smith-psychology-of-violence-opinions-ideas-10-smith.html



For example, one veteran confessed that, because a woman's crying infant was interfering with his rape of her he "took a living human child … an innocent baby that was just beginning to talk, and threw it into boiling water." It is hard to imagine normal men behaving in this way. Try to imagine yourself doing it, and your mind will probably recoil in disgust. However, the soldiers who committed these atrocities were neither madmen nor monsters. They were, for the most part, ordinary people. People like you. The same is true of all the other mass atrocities that litter human history. The infernal ovens of Auschwitz, the mass graves at Srebrenica and the killing fields of Pol Pot's Kampuchea were all the handiwork of ordinary people

These observations raise an extremely important question. What goes on in the human mind to make such brutality possible? Yoshio Tshuchiya, another Japanese veteran interviewed in Katsuichi's book, gestures towards an answer. "We called the Chinese ‘chancorro' … that meant below human, like bugs or animals … The Chinese didn't belong to the human race. That was the way we looked at it." "If I'd thought of them as human beings I couldn't have done it," he observed, "But … I thought of them as animals or below human beings."


This is called dehumanization. We dehumanize our fellow human beings when we convince ourselves (or allow ourselves to be convinced) that they are less than human and come to believe that, although these people appear to be human beings like us, this is merely a façade. Beneath the surface they are really subhuman creatures, fit to be hunted down and destroyed. The immense destructive power of dehumanization lies in the fact that it excludes its victims from the universe of moral obligation, so killing them is of no greater consequence swatting a mosquito, or poisoning a rat. If dehumanization is a key factor in war and genocide, we ought to be working very hard to prevent it.

Otros culpan al televisor y a los videojuegos.



Personalmente lo achaco a nuestra falta de valores. Si estoy rodeado de personas que hacen trampas, son corruptos, se roban el cable TV, la luz y el agua, o que son Pay Per Play, como algunos funcionarios politicos...nos sorprende entonces que nuestros funcionarios y policias sean manzanas podridas?


Yo sigo leyendo libros que traje de alla. Luego escribo algo relacionado.
Cierro con una historia zen. El Aguila que Creia Ser Gallina


A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.
All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked.
"That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth-- we're chickens." So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.
From Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
by Anthony de Mello