Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War
Year: 1998
Type: book-review
Abstract: John Taylor
Manchester University Press, £15.99, pp 210
ISBN 0 7190 3722 0
The thing about looking at photographs is that we have a choice of whether to engage with the event depicted or not. We may have little concept of what preceded the picture being taken or what happened immediately afterwards, but we can look with utter detachment or we can get involved. Much of Body Horror discusses the apparent sanitisation of war and other traumatic situations by the media's adoption of policies designed more to protect the viewer than …
Source: BMJ
Author: Abi Berger
Institution: BMJ Group (United Kingdom)
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2067596629