The Verdict

Name: The Verdict
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9789053309452
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The Verdict by Jan Banning is a profound photographic case study of the US criminal justice system, focusing on a decades-old murder case in Georgia. It explores the 1992 conviction of Christina Boyer for the alleged murder of her toddler daughter, intertwining documentary and staged images with medical analyses and media critique. Boyer's personal diaries and reflections deepen the narrative, offering insight into her experience of incarceration through a visual and emotional lens.
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Format: Hardback

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This book will engage readers interested in photography, criminal justice, and social issues, as well as those drawn to artistic and political explorations of truth and perception.

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Shortlisted for the Singapore International Photography Festival

The Verdict by Jan Banning is a multi-layered case study of the US Criminal Justice system and mass incarceration. The book delves into a three-decades-old murder case in Georgia. On April 14, 1992, 22-year-old Christina Boyer was arrested for the murder of her toddler daughter Amber and sentenced to life in prison. Banning questions her guilt.

The book presents the results of his extensive research. By combining documentary and staged photos with texts, it unravels the role of the media, presents analyses by medical professionals, and includes Banning's own visual interpretation of elements of the story. Notably, Banning invited Christina Boyer, the 'subject' of the project, to actively participate in it. Boyer allowed Banning to disclose pages from her diaries and offers viewers insight into her inner world by writing her associations with his photos from Georgia. This gives an impression of how such an incarceration influences one's perception of the visual world.

Stylistically, the book contains references to film noir, 19th-century Romantic landscapes, and 17th-century Vanitas still lifes. It poses deep questions about objectivism versus subjectivism. In the end, the audience is challenged to judge for themselves. The artistic visual interpretations and documentation collected present a major political story in a unique way.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789053309452

Publisher: Schilt Publishing b.v.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: Schilt Publishing b.v.

Illustration: 75

Contributors:

Contributions by Jan Banning
Afterword by Marc Morjé Howard

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 245.0mm

Height: 285.0mm

Weight: 1260g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jan Banning (b.1954) is a Dutch artist/photographer based in the Netherlands. His parents were born and raised in the colonial Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Banning studied social and economic history at the Radboud University of Nijmegen.

In 2008, Banning gained worldwide recognition with his critically acclaimed book Bureaucratics (government offices in eight countries worldwide), edited by Martin Parr, that garnered rave reviews as well as a World Press Photo award. Often, his work has a personal starting point. Traces of War: Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways (2003) contains 24 portraits and interviews of Dutch and Indonesian former WWII forced laborers in South East Asia - including Banning's father. Comfort Women (2010) is a series of close-up portraits of Indonesian women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during WWII. In The Sweating Subject (2018) he puts an ironic twist on colonial photography. The small series National Identities is an attack on xenophobic populism. Law & Order (2015), an in-depth look at the intricacies of the judiciary in four countries on four continents, paved the way to The Verdict.

Banning has had more than 80 solo exhibitions around the world. His work is included in many public, private and corporate collections, including those of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Forward Thinking Museum in New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Berlin. Since May 2018, he has been working full-time as an 'artivist' on the case of Christina Boyer.