The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
- Hardcover
225 pages
- Release Date
27 September 2004
Summary
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she built dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases in order to train detectives to assess visual evidence. Still used in forensic training today, the eighteen Nutshell diorama…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580931458 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580931456 |
| Author: | Corrine May Botz, Corinne May Botz |
| Publisher: | Monacelli Press |
| Imprint: | Monacelli Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 225 |
| Release Date: | 27 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 1.27kg |
| Dimensions: | 274mm x 220mm x 50mm |
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‘The Nutshell dioramas are compelling, a bit disturbing, and engagingly weird - it never previously seemed possible to use the words ‘forsenic’ and ‘cute’ in the same sentence. Corinne May Botz has done a grand job both in exposing them to a non-specialist public and in photographing them with such fanatical verisimilitude.’ - Luc Sante
About The Author
Corrine May Botz
Corinne May Botz has published photographs and essays in magazines such as Life, Metropolis, 2wice, and Popular Science. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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