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Posted in 1940s, Accident scenes on Sep 6th, 2011
The police photography of motor accident scenes developed from the one or two frame approach to many shots, giving a more comprehensive view of the incident. By the mid-1940s, police photographers were documenting the general location of an accident, the damaged vehicles in situ, different viewpoints and close-up details. The photographs helped investigators to determine [...]
Posted in 1930s, Accident scenes on Aug 24th, 2011
In the 1930s increasing speed and a larger number of vehicles meant road authorities began focusing on the cause of traffic accidents. During this early period of crash investigation police usually took only one or two photographs, often not at the location where the accident occurred. In these early examples its impossible to speculate on [...]
Posted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Accident scenes, Archive Gallery, Negative Archive, Police Photographers on Mar 21st, 2011
The Archive Gallery has been transformed for the archive’s latest offering Collision: misadventure by motor car.
This exhibition presents previously unseen traffic accident photographs taken by police between 1920 and 1964. Recent research on the archive reveals that after the mid-1940s the police approach to photographing accident sites becomes more comprehensive – expanding from one or [...]
Posted in Accident scenes on Mar 7th, 2011