Body Horror Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War

Name: Body Horror Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War
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ISBN: 9780814782392

ISBN-10: 0814782396

ISBN-13: 9780814782392

Edition: 1998

Authors: John F. A. Taylor

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His work is insightful and provocative, linking ideas from a number of disciplines while he asks readers to consider the moral and ethical frameworks within which decisions are made about the publciation of disturbing photos.-Journal of Mass Media EthicsWhat compels us to look at shocking photographs or, alternatively, to look away? Should the media use disturbing images to inform, at the risk of offending? How is our sense of politics, morality, and culture affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death?InBody Horror, John Taylor addresses these questions by examining how the media presents unsettling pictures, especially…

Book details

List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

A founding editor of the photographic journal Ten.8, John Taylor is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the Manchester Metropolitan University.



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Caught looking



Why look?



Press, photography and evidence



Press shock



Disaster tragedy



Murder



Foreign bodies



The body vanishes in the Gulf War



Conclusion


Selective bibliography


Index