时间：4月23日 – 5月31日
地点：三影堂摄影艺术中心
北京市朝阳区草场地155号A 100015
电话：+86 (10) 6432 2663
星期二至星期日，上午10时–下午6时
《无辜者》记录了一些因从未犯过的暴力犯罪而在监狱服刑的人们的故事。争议问题的焦点是关于摄影作为可信的见证和公正仲裁的功能。
误判的主因是错误的身份识别。受害者或目击者识别疑犯的方式，是通过执法机关提供的照片和排队辨认。这种程序有赖于准确的视觉记忆这一假设。但是，暴露在合成速写、头像、宝丽来一次成像照片以及列队辨认之下，目击者的记忆可能会改变。在这类案件的历史中，摄影为司法公正体系提供了工具，将一个无辜公民变成了罪犯。摄影辅助了法官获得目击证人的辨认，帮助起诉人获得罪证。
西蒙拍摄了现场中的这些人，这对他们的违法定罪具有特别重要的意义：错误识别现场、被捕现场、犯罪现场以及证明不在犯罪现场的现场。所有这些场所对于主人公具有矛盾的意义。被捕现场标志着以虚构为根据的现实的开始。犯罪现场立刻就变得任意和至关重要：这个他们不曾涉足的地方，永远改变了他们的生活。在这些摄影作品里，西蒙面对的是摄影混淆真实与虚构的能力——这一模糊性会导致严重甚至致命的后果。
展览由美国纽约高古轩画廊与草场地摄影季共同主办
展览曾在2010年阿尔勒国际摄影节上展出，塔伦·西蒙为2010年阿尔勒国际摄影节发现奖获得者
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Date: April 23 – May 31
Venue: Three Shadows Photography
Art Centre (Exhibition Hall 2), No. 155 A
Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing
100015
Tel: +86 (10) 6432 2663
Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The Innocents documents the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. At issue is the question of photography's function as a credible eyewitness and arbiter of justice.
The primary cause of wrongful conviction is mistaken identification. A victim or eyewitness identifies a suspected perpetrator through law enforcement's use of photographs and lineups. This procedure relies on the assumption of precise visual memory. But, through exposure to composite sketches, mug shots, Polaroids, and lineups, eyewitness memory can change. In the history of these cases, photography offered the criminal justice system a tool that transformed innocent citizens into criminals. Photographs assisted officers in obtaining eyewitness identifications and aided prosecutors in securing convictions.
Simon photographed these men and women at sites that had particular significance to their illegitimate conviction: the scene of misidentification, the scene of arrest, the scene of the crime or the scene of the alibi. All of these locations hold contradictory meanings for the subjects. The scene of arrest marks the starting point of a reality based in fiction. The scene of the crime is at once arbitrary and crucial: this place, to which they have never been, changed their lives forever. In these photographs Simon confronts photography's ability to blur truth and fiction-an ambiguity that can have severe, even lethal consequences.
Exhibition presented by Gagosian Gallery (New York) and Caochangdi PhotoSpring.
This exhibition was featured at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2010, where Taryn Simon won the Discovery Award.
www.threeshadows.cn
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