If you like old photographs or Thomas Brady (the civil war photographer who took the famous picture of Lincoln) photography
or if you like TV shows or documentaries about true crime of serial killers or gangs and mobsters then you will enjoy the art book the WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP! They also made a documentary film with the same title as the book based on the information and people in the book and the town these folks came from sometime close to 1998! The book is from the mid 1970's and I've only seen it in softcover. The book is about a danish or dutch immigrant, a man who moved to this town in Wisconsin and had many kids and a large family who then later had kids and families of their own. This man was mentally ill and quite possibly had a sociopathic anti social disorder, which he passed down to his kids, who then kept passing the mentally ill gene from generation to generation. I haven't looked at the book in about 6 years, but I remember the black and white pictures had some very crazy looking people in the photographs. The family photos were not of anyone doing an action or a crazy thing at all. You just could see intensified people and read the captions next to the pictures about where in the town they are from and who they were related to and if they killed someone, acted violent, or killed themselves. I recommend buying the art photo book first and then finding the low budget documentary film based on the book after you read the book first. The book is kind of like a late pioneer mid west film noir book. If you like WEEGEE photography pictures, or the photo art books of the 1940's and 1950's true crimes photo evidence files in the LAPD archives. Then you will like this book. I have not seen the photo art book where the famous 1800's detective out of New York I believe took pictures of all the killers, muggers, thieves, and crooks in town and kept a large photo police file on everyone he caught. Kind of like the Pinkerton detective agency in the 1800's but this guy was working as a police employee of New York City. The Pinkerton agency would hunt someone down or solve a crime for you if you paid them for it, kind of like independent contractors. I learned about the 1800's New York detective photographs files in a documentary I saw on the TV a few years back! If you don't know who WEE GEE is go check him out! They made a silly movie about him in the 1960's staring him as the lead role, it was low budget but fun!
or if you like TV shows or documentaries about true crime of serial killers or gangs and mobsters then you will enjoy the art book the WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP! They also made a documentary film with the same title as the book based on the information and people in the book and the town these folks came from sometime close to 1998! The book is from the mid 1970's and I've only seen it in softcover. The book is about a danish or dutch immigrant, a man who moved to this town in Wisconsin and had many kids and a large family who then later had kids and families of their own. This man was mentally ill and quite possibly had a sociopathic anti social disorder, which he passed down to his kids, who then kept passing the mentally ill gene from generation to generation. I haven't looked at the book in about 6 years, but I remember the black and white pictures had some very crazy looking people in the photographs. The family photos were not of anyone doing an action or a crazy thing at all. You just could see intensified people and read the captions next to the pictures about where in the town they are from and who they were related to and if they killed someone, acted violent, or killed themselves. I recommend buying the art photo book first and then finding the low budget documentary film based on the book after you read the book first. The book is kind of like a late pioneer mid west film noir book. If you like WEEGEE photography pictures, or the photo art books of the 1940's and 1950's true crimes photo evidence files in the LAPD archives. Then you will like this book. I have not seen the photo art book where the famous 1800's detective out of New York I believe took pictures of all the killers, muggers, thieves, and crooks in town and kept a large photo police file on everyone he caught. Kind of like the Pinkerton detective agency in the 1800's but this guy was working as a police employee of New York City. The Pinkerton agency would hunt someone down or solve a crime for you if you paid them for it, kind of like independent contractors. I learned about the 1800's New York detective photographs files in a documentary I saw on the TV a few years back! If you don't know who WEE GEE is go check him out! They made a silly movie about him in the 1960's staring him as the lead role, it was low budget but fun!