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A stirring recent example of the crossover between forensic photography and art took place when a forgotten archive of forensic photo negatives from the Los Angeles Police Department was discovered in 2001 in a city records warehouse by both the photographer and LAPD reserve officer Merrick Morton and Lieutenant John Thomas. Morton had been planning on putting together an exhibition of LAPD photographs, when he came across an overwhelming archive of forensic cellulose nitrate negatives...
