sarah ball 'accused
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Hard back booklet with slideshow and interview dvd to accompany the exhibition 'Accused' by Sarah Ball held at Millennium, St. IvesTRANSCRIPT
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S A R A H B A L L | A C C U S E D
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In the 19th Century the social sciences of anthropology, ethnology and
sociology all gained legitimacy. Photography was used to document such
studies and seen to embody the new authority of empiricism.
Police photographic archives record the faces of the ‘accused’. Used to evidence
the pathology of crime and criminals, photography was thought to connect
outward physical appearance and inner character traits. In essence it was
believed good people ‘looked good’ and morally bad people ‘looked ugly’.
They searched for; “The harmony of moral beauty and physical beauty… the
science of discovering the relation between the exterior and interior – between
the visible surface and the invisible spirit it covers…” Johann Kasper Lavater.
(Essays on Physiognomy: Designed to Promote the Knowledge and Love of Mankind. Vol
1. London. John Murray 1789)
Photographic images however are not objective statements of fact. They are
subjective representations of the truth interpreted but the camera, the viewer
and now, the painter.
The work in this exhibition is sourced primarily from police criminal archives
– I am interested in the act of translation; from the apparent certainty of the
photographic record to the malleable quality of paint, my work calls into
question history, memory and story.
Sarah Ball 2012
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Thie f (Of Fur Coat)
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Vagrant
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Burglar
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Act iv i s t
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Female Impersonator
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Thie f
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Abort ionis t
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Conspirator & Co Conspirator
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Informers
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Sly Grogger
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Vagrant
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Gang Member
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Trai tor
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I l l egal i s t
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Anarchis t
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Assai lant
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Prost i tute
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Prost i tute
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Gang Member
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Male Impersonator
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Gangster
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Fraudster
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Published by Millennium to coincide with the exhibition ‘Accused’ by Sarah Ball
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Publication produced by Impact Printing Services (www.impactprintingservices.co.uk)
Interview Film by Alban Roinard and Joseph Clarke
ISBN 978-1-905772-54-4
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