"Conspiracy Theory #7: Dealey Plaza" photographic series by Piet Wessing
in original frames: 12 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (30.8 × 41 cm)
German artist Piet Wessing selected a variety of amateur and professional still photographs and film frames to create "Conspiracy Theory #7: Dealey Plaza." Many of the original images used by Wessing are extreme close-ups or crops, colorized, reversed, composites or manipulated in various ways.
Moving from left to right, source images for the top row are: a photograph of President Kennedy in the Oval Office on October 31, 1963, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton; a Dallas Police Department photograph of the Texas School Book Depository; a photograph of President and Mrs. Kennedy at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton; an Associated Press photograph taken during the assassination by Ike Altgens; a frame from the compilation film, "President Kennedys Final Hour," produced by the Dallas Cinema Associates; a photograph by eyewitness Jim Murray of the aftermath in Dealey Plaza; and a photograph by eyewitness Charles Bronson taken at the beginning of the assassination.
From left to right, source images for the second row are: a photograph by eyewitness Phil Willis taken at the beginning of the assassination; a frame (likely Z157) from the Abraham Zapruder film; a close-up of a detail from a Dealey Plaza photograph by Clint Grant of The Dallas Morning News; three additional frames from the Abraham Zapruder film (likely Z178, Z208 and Z224); and a close-up of a detail from a Dealey Plaza photograph taken by eyewitness Jim Towner.
From left to right, source images for the third row are: a slightly manipulated photograph of Dealey Plaza taken from the roof of the Dallas County Records Building; a photograph taken during the assassination by eyewitness Mary Moorman; a backwards composite image made from multiple frames of the Orville Nix film; three additional frames from the Abraham Zapruder film (likely Z303, Z312 and Z313); and a reverse view of a Dealey Plaza photograph taken by eyewitness Richard Bothun.
From left to right, source images for the fourth row are: a frame from the Abraham Zapruder film (likely Z333); a Dealey Plaza photograph showing eyewitnesses Bill and Gayle Newman, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton; another Abraham Zapruder film frame (likely Z416); an FBI photograph of the presidential limousine inside the White House Garage on November 23, 1963; a photograph of the swearing-in of Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One in Dallas, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton; and two U.S. government photographs taken during President Kennedy's autopsy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland on November 22, 1963. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator