Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Evidence |
| Science |
| 2 | Charles Lyell on Niagara Falls (1845) |
| 3 | Berenice Abbott: Science |
| Crime |
| 4 | Alphonse Bertillon (attributed): Album of Paris Crime Scenes |
| 5 | The Cawnpore (Kanpur) Massacres |
| 6 | The Congo Atrocities |
| 7 | Eva Leitolf: German Images - Looking for Evidence 2006-2008 |
| Religion |
| 8 | George Skene Keith: Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion (1859) |
| 9 | Jerusalem: Arch of Ecce Homo |
| Social conditions |
| 10 | The scourged back |
| 11 | Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives |
| 12 | Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers |
| 13 | Mass Observation (Great Britain) |
| 14 | David Goldblatt: In Boksburg |
| Chid labour |
| 15 | Lewis W. Hine: The reform of child labour in America |
| Problems on interpretation |
| 16 | A question of emotional interpretation: People of Cheb salute the German troops entering the town in the Anschluss of the Sudetenland (October 1938) |
| War |
| 17 | The Battle of Gettysburg and photographic evidence (July 1863) |
| 18 | François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian (19 June 1867) |
| 19 | Armenian massacres |
| 20 | Henryk Ross: Lodz Ghetto, Poland (1943-1945) |
| 21 | The Holocaust: Death camps |
| 22 | Jeffrey Wolin: Written In Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust (1992-1994) |
| 23 | Ronald Haeberle: The My Lai Massacre (16 March 1968) |
| 24 | Issues of interpretation of building structures |
| 25 | Jack Burman: KZ |
| 26 | Justification for the Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| 27 | Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project |
| 28 | Evidence of torture in Syria (2014) |
| Fine art photography and evidence - questioning truth |
| 29 | Christian Patterson: Redheaded Peckerwood |
