Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative – the story of 19 year old Charles Starkweather and 14 year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate’s family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way. Redheaded Peckerwood also utilizes and plays with a pre-existing archive of material, deliberately mixing fact and fiction, past and present, myth and reality as it presents, expands and re-presents the various facts and theories surrounding this story. In book form, the work is presented as a sort of visual crime dossier, including pieces of paper which are inserted into the book. The many individual pieces included serve as cues and clues within the visual puzzle. In this way, there are connections that are left for the viewer to be made and mysteries that are left to be solved.

アメリカ人フォトグラファー、Christian Pettersonの自身2冊目となる写真集。実際にアメリカで起こった殺人事件を元に、実際の事件現場の風景や捜査資料、加害者や被害者の所持品といったノンフィクション・イメージと、それらのイメージを捉える中でインスパイアされたフィクション・イメージが巧みな編集でまとめられている。捜査メモを連想させる紙切れが挟み込まれるなど、随所に徹底的なこだわりを感じる1冊。
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