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The New Paradigm of Forensic Aesthetics: Photography and Representation in the Digital Age

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 34, 139 - 151, 30.07.2025
https://doi.org/10.17484/yedi.1633225

Öz

The transformation of visual documentation practices in forensic sciences has necessitated a reevaluation of the concept of forensic aesthetics in contemporary art. The epistemological tension created by photography's representational power and claims to objectivity within the context of forensic aesthetics has led to an evolution from technical documentation to an interdisciplinary field encompassing ethical and political layers. During this process, while visual documentation has shown development from mere evidence collection to the construction of social memory, contemporary art practices have enriched this process with new approaches both formally and conceptually.
The reinterpretation of archival materials in the context of memory and identity, systematic documentation of war and conflict zones, and new possibilities offered by digital technologies have expanded the conceptual framework of forensic aesthetics. This study examines, through visual-spatial analyses and artistic interpretations, Christian Boltanski's Archives series questioning archival memory, Sophie Ristelhueber's Fait series documenting war geography, Gregory Crewdson's Beneath the Roses series reinterpreting forensic photography through a cinematic language and Forensic Architecture's The Murder of Halit Yozgat project utilizing digital technologies in the pursuit of justice.
The findings show that the function of forensic aesthetics in photographic art has evolved into a unique field where critical and political discourses can be produced beyond traditional documentation processes, and this transformation has laid the groundwork for the democratization of visual documentation and the emergence of new ethical discussions.

Kaynakça

  • Albers, K. P. (2011). It's not an archive: Christian Boltanski's Les Archives de C. B., 1965–1988. Visual Resources, 27(3), 249-266.https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2011.597166
  • Aytimur, R. G. (2024). Michel Foucault'da sanat ve iktidar ilişkisi üzerine bir inceleme. Motif Akademi Halk Bilimi Dergisi. https://doi.org/10.12981/mahder.1362866
  • Baer, U. (2002). Spectral evidence: The photography of trauma. MIT Press.
  • Biber, K., Doyle, P., ve Rossmanith, K. (2013). Perceiving at crime scenes: Authenticity, ethics, aesthetics: A conversation. Griffith Law Review, 22(3), 804-814. https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2013.10877023
  • Buxton, P. (2018). Architecture helps hold the guilty to account. RIBA Journal. https://www.ribaj.com/culture/forensic-architecture-human-rights-violations-corporate
  • Caines, R. (2004). Christian Boltanski. Afterimage, 32(1), 4 5. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2004.32.1.4
  • Dokgöz, D. (2022). Adli Mimarlıktan Cezaevi Mimarlığına Suç, Ceza ve Cezalandırmanın Mekansal Anatomisi. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, 27(2), 175-184. doi:10.17986/blm.1560.
  • Didi-Huberman, G. (2008). Images in spite of all: Four photographs from Auschwitz. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Demircan, Ö. (2022). Fotografik gözetimden veri gözetimine estetik direniş. Praksis, (59), 57–81.
  • Erçetingöz, A. (2022). Hakikatin önemsizleştiği çağda belgesel fotoğraf: Post-truth ve Post-doc kavramlarını bir arada düşünmek. Moment Journal, 9(2), 543-566. https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2022.2.543-566
  • Forensic Architecture. (t.y.). About us. Forensic Architecture. https://forensic-architecture.org/about/agency
  • Foucault, M. (2006). Hapishanenin doğuşu: Gözetim altında tutmak ve cezalandırmak (M. A. Kılıçbay, Çev.). İmge Kitabevi.
  • Green, D., ve Lowry, J. (2009). Photography, cinema and medium as social practicet. Visual Studies, 24(2), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725860903106138
  • Gagosian. (2020). Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses, Beverly Hills, https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2005/gregory-crewdson-beneath-the-roses/
  • Gustafsson, H. (2016). The cut and the continuum: Sophie Ristelhueber's anatomical atlas. History of Photography, 40(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2015.1103458
  • Gustafsson, H. (2019). Crime scenery in postwar film and photography. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04867-9
  • Günay, İ. E. (2024). Estetik ve siyaset ilişkisinde bir paradoks olarak beden. MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler, 30, 44-62. https://doi.org/10.56074/msgsusbd.1558332
  • Hobbs, R. (1998). Boltanski's visual archives. History of the Human Sciences, 11(4), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/095269519801100408
  • Işık, V. (2015). Sanatta doğa, beden ve teknoloji kullanımı. Elektronik Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 14(53), 23. https://doi.org/10.17755/esosder.77271
  • Jayewardene, C. H. S. (1988). Forensic science and the law. Forensic Science International, 36(1-2), 41-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/0379-0738(88)90213-7
  • Jones, D. H. (2022). Visual culture and the forensic: Culture, memory, ethics. Routledge.
  • Keenan, T. (2014). Mengele'nin kafatası: Adli estetiğin ortaya çıkışı. Açılım Kitap.
  • Kruse, C. (2016). The social life of forensic evidence. University of California Press.
  • Kulasekara, D. (2016). Representation of trauma in contemporary arts. Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts, 4(1), 35-60. https://doi.org/10.30958/ajha.4.1.3
  • Lane, G. (2009). Beneath the Roses by Gregory Crewdson and Russell Banks. The Art Book, 16(1), 66-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8357.2009.01014_1.x
  • López Paniagua, L. (2023). El meta-archivo fallido de Christian Boltanski. Eikasía Revista de Filosofía, 92, 297-313. https://doi.org/10.57027/eikasia.92.446
  • Lowe, P. (2018). Traces of traces: Time, space, objects, and the forensic turn in photography. Humanities, 7(3), 76. https://doi.org/10.3390/h7030076
  • Monegal, A. (2016). Picturing absence: Photography in the aftermath. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 9(3), 252-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2016.1200259
  • Ochsner, B. (2003). Ulrich Baer: Spectral Evidence. The Photography of Trauma. MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews, 20(2), 215-219. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/7281
  • Özkan, Ö., ve Öz, O. (2023). Christian Boltanski'nin sanatında ölümden arda kalan: Anıt, arşiv ve hafıza. Sanat Yazıları, 49, 495-510. https://doi.org/10.61742/sanatyazilari.1318044
  • Parent, A. (2005). Duchenne De Boulogne: A pioneer in neurology and medical photography. The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 32(3), 369–377. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100004315
  • Perry, L. (2012). The Carte de Visite in the 1860s and the serial dynamic of photographic likeness. Art History, 35(4), 728–749. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00915.x
  • Rugoff, R., Vidler, A., ve Wollen, P. (1997). Scene of the crime. MIT Press.
  • Saladini, E. (2011). The art of telling history: Christian Boltanski. İçinde Art, Emotion and Value: Proceedings of the 5th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, 2011. Scott Bray, R. (2014). Rotten prettiness? The forensic aesthetic and crime as art. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 40(1), 69-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2014.931900
  • Sontag, S. (2023). Fotoğraf üzerine (Osman Akınhay, Çev.). Can Yayınları
  • Tate. (2015). Sophie Ristelhueber- Documenting Traces of War | TateShots YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsgm4OBOfE
  • Buffalo AKG Art Museum. (t.y.). Untitled from the series Fait. https://buffaloakg.org/artworks/p199794-untitled-series-fait
  • Weichert, K. (2021). The visual power of photography and its status as a representation. JOLMA – The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2021/01/011
  • Weizman, E. (2017). Forensic architecture: Violence at the threshold of detectability Zone Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv14gphth
  • Wilkinson, C. (2015). A review of forensic art. Research and Reports in Forensic Medical Science, 5, 17–24. https://doi.org/10.2147/RRFMS.S60767

Adli Estetiğin Yeni Paradigması: Dijital Dönemde Fotoğraf ve Temsili

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 34, 139 - 151, 30.07.2025
https://doi.org/10.17484/yedi.1633225

Öz

Son yıllarda adli bilimlerin görsel belgeleme pratiklerindeki dönüşüm, çağdaş sanat alanında adli estetik kavramının yeniden değerlendirilmesini zorunlu kılmıştır. Fotoğrafın temsil gücü ve nesnellik iddiasının adli estetik bağlamında yarattığı epistemolojik gerilim, teknik dokümantasyondan etik ve politik katmanları içeren disiplinlerarası bir alana evrilmeyi beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu süreçte görsel belgeleme, salt kanıt toplama eyleminden toplumsal belleğin inşasına uzanan bir gelişim gösterirken, çağdaş sanat pratikleri bu süreci hem biçimsel hem de kavramsal düzeyde yeni yaklaşımlarla zenginleştirmiştir.
Arşivsel materyallerin bellek ve kimlik bağlamında yeniden yorumlanması, savaş ve çatışma alanlarının sistematik belgelenmesi ve dijital teknolojilerin sağladığı yeni olanaklar, adli estetiğin kavramsal çerçevesini genişletmiştir. Bu çalışmada Christian Boltanski'nin arşivsel belleği sorgulayan Archives serisi, Sophie Ristelhueber'in savaş coğrafyasını belgeleyen Fait serisi, Gregory Crewdson'ın adli fotoğrafçılığı sinematik bir dille yeniden yorumlayan Beneath the Roses serisi ve Forensic Architecture'ın dijital teknolojileri adalet arayışında kullanan The Murder of Halit Yozgat projesi görsel-mekânsal analizler ve sanatsal yorumlamalar üzerinden incelenmiştir.
Çalışmanın sonuçları, adli estetiğin fotoğraf sanatındaki işlevinin kapsamlı bir dönüşüm geçirdiğini ortaya koymaktadır. Adli estetiğin fotoğraf sanatındaki işlevinin, geleneksel belgeleme süreçlerini aşarak eleştirel ve politik söylemlerin üretilebildiği özgün bir alana dönüştüğünü, bu dönüşümün görsel belgelemenin demokratikleşmesine ve yeni etik tartışmaların ortaya çıkmasına zemin hazırladığını göstermektedir.

Kaynakça

  • Albers, K. P. (2011). It's not an archive: Christian Boltanski's Les Archives de C. B., 1965–1988. Visual Resources, 27(3), 249-266.https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2011.597166
  • Aytimur, R. G. (2024). Michel Foucault'da sanat ve iktidar ilişkisi üzerine bir inceleme. Motif Akademi Halk Bilimi Dergisi. https://doi.org/10.12981/mahder.1362866
  • Baer, U. (2002). Spectral evidence: The photography of trauma. MIT Press.
  • Biber, K., Doyle, P., ve Rossmanith, K. (2013). Perceiving at crime scenes: Authenticity, ethics, aesthetics: A conversation. Griffith Law Review, 22(3), 804-814. https://doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2013.10877023
  • Buxton, P. (2018). Architecture helps hold the guilty to account. RIBA Journal. https://www.ribaj.com/culture/forensic-architecture-human-rights-violations-corporate
  • Caines, R. (2004). Christian Boltanski. Afterimage, 32(1), 4 5. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2004.32.1.4
  • Dokgöz, D. (2022). Adli Mimarlıktan Cezaevi Mimarlığına Suç, Ceza ve Cezalandırmanın Mekansal Anatomisi. The Bulletin of Legal Medicine, 27(2), 175-184. doi:10.17986/blm.1560.
  • Didi-Huberman, G. (2008). Images in spite of all: Four photographs from Auschwitz. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Demircan, Ö. (2022). Fotografik gözetimden veri gözetimine estetik direniş. Praksis, (59), 57–81.
  • Erçetingöz, A. (2022). Hakikatin önemsizleştiği çağda belgesel fotoğraf: Post-truth ve Post-doc kavramlarını bir arada düşünmek. Moment Journal, 9(2), 543-566. https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2022.2.543-566
  • Forensic Architecture. (t.y.). About us. Forensic Architecture. https://forensic-architecture.org/about/agency
  • Foucault, M. (2006). Hapishanenin doğuşu: Gözetim altında tutmak ve cezalandırmak (M. A. Kılıçbay, Çev.). İmge Kitabevi.
  • Green, D., ve Lowry, J. (2009). Photography, cinema and medium as social practicet. Visual Studies, 24(2), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725860903106138
  • Gagosian. (2020). Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses, Beverly Hills, https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2005/gregory-crewdson-beneath-the-roses/
  • Gustafsson, H. (2016). The cut and the continuum: Sophie Ristelhueber's anatomical atlas. History of Photography, 40(1), 67-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2015.1103458
  • Gustafsson, H. (2019). Crime scenery in postwar film and photography. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04867-9
  • Günay, İ. E. (2024). Estetik ve siyaset ilişkisinde bir paradoks olarak beden. MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler, 30, 44-62. https://doi.org/10.56074/msgsusbd.1558332
  • Hobbs, R. (1998). Boltanski's visual archives. History of the Human Sciences, 11(4), 121-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/095269519801100408
  • Işık, V. (2015). Sanatta doğa, beden ve teknoloji kullanımı. Elektronik Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 14(53), 23. https://doi.org/10.17755/esosder.77271
  • Jayewardene, C. H. S. (1988). Forensic science and the law. Forensic Science International, 36(1-2), 41-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/0379-0738(88)90213-7
  • Jones, D. H. (2022). Visual culture and the forensic: Culture, memory, ethics. Routledge.
  • Keenan, T. (2014). Mengele'nin kafatası: Adli estetiğin ortaya çıkışı. Açılım Kitap.
  • Kruse, C. (2016). The social life of forensic evidence. University of California Press.
  • Kulasekara, D. (2016). Representation of trauma in contemporary arts. Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts, 4(1), 35-60. https://doi.org/10.30958/ajha.4.1.3
  • Lane, G. (2009). Beneath the Roses by Gregory Crewdson and Russell Banks. The Art Book, 16(1), 66-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8357.2009.01014_1.x
  • López Paniagua, L. (2023). El meta-archivo fallido de Christian Boltanski. Eikasía Revista de Filosofía, 92, 297-313. https://doi.org/10.57027/eikasia.92.446
  • Lowe, P. (2018). Traces of traces: Time, space, objects, and the forensic turn in photography. Humanities, 7(3), 76. https://doi.org/10.3390/h7030076
  • Monegal, A. (2016). Picturing absence: Photography in the aftermath. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 9(3), 252-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2016.1200259
  • Ochsner, B. (2003). Ulrich Baer: Spectral Evidence. The Photography of Trauma. MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews, 20(2), 215-219. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/7281
  • Özkan, Ö., ve Öz, O. (2023). Christian Boltanski'nin sanatında ölümden arda kalan: Anıt, arşiv ve hafıza. Sanat Yazıları, 49, 495-510. https://doi.org/10.61742/sanatyazilari.1318044
  • Parent, A. (2005). Duchenne De Boulogne: A pioneer in neurology and medical photography. The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 32(3), 369–377. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100004315
  • Perry, L. (2012). The Carte de Visite in the 1860s and the serial dynamic of photographic likeness. Art History, 35(4), 728–749. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00915.x
  • Rugoff, R., Vidler, A., ve Wollen, P. (1997). Scene of the crime. MIT Press.
  • Saladini, E. (2011). The art of telling history: Christian Boltanski. İçinde Art, Emotion and Value: Proceedings of the 5th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, 2011. Scott Bray, R. (2014). Rotten prettiness? The forensic aesthetic and crime as art. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 40(1), 69-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2014.931900
  • Sontag, S. (2023). Fotoğraf üzerine (Osman Akınhay, Çev.). Can Yayınları
  • Tate. (2015). Sophie Ristelhueber- Documenting Traces of War | TateShots YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBsgm4OBOfE
  • Buffalo AKG Art Museum. (t.y.). Untitled from the series Fait. https://buffaloakg.org/artworks/p199794-untitled-series-fait
  • Weichert, K. (2021). The visual power of photography and its status as a representation. JOLMA – The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.30687/jolma/2723-9640/2021/01/011
  • Weizman, E. (2017). Forensic architecture: Violence at the threshold of detectability Zone Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv14gphth
  • Wilkinson, C. (2015). A review of forensic art. Research and Reports in Forensic Medical Science, 5, 17–24. https://doi.org/10.2147/RRFMS.S60767
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Konular Disiplinlerarası Sanat
Bölüm Araştırma Makaleler
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Burak Yedekçi 0000-0002-2009-8100

Erken Görünüm Tarihi 30 Haziran 2025
Yayımlanma Tarihi 30 Temmuz 2025
Gönderilme Tarihi 4 Şubat 2025
Kabul Tarihi 14 Haziran 2025
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2025 Sayı: 34

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APA Yedekçi, B. (2025). Adli Estetiğin Yeni Paradigması: Dijital Dönemde Fotoğraf ve Temsili. Yedi(34), 139-151. https://doi.org/10.17484/yedi.1633225

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