Not a reply to Victoria, but a point that her post prompted:
This post arrived in my e-mail inbox as "Re: Hello" from a person
whose name I didn't recognise. I almost had it flagged as spam, since
it exhibited a number of the common characteristics of that form of
mail. So, and this is positively not intended as a slight against
Victoria, what would people think about prefixing all their posts to
the list with the phrase "Dark Tourism" in square brackets, so that
people like me with itchy spam trigger fingers don't miss them - even
better if the mailer daemon at Jiscmail could be persuaded to do this
automagically. Any thoughts?
Best wishes to all, especially Victoria, whose posting I have hi-jacked
Ronnie
On 2 Apr 2006, at 12:09, Victoria Lindsay wrote:
> Hi Vic,
>
> I’ve just been catching up with the mails - there is an interesting
> book
> which concentrates on what is considered tasteful and what is not
> and what
> is published and what is not in the media, it focuses on war but
> also covers
> natural and manmade disasters. The book also considers why people
> want to
> look at photos of people dead or dying.
> - Body Horror - Photojournalism, catastrophe and war. John Taylor –
> New York
> University Press 1998
>
> This books mentions Sobchak’s photographers gazes - a journalist
> accidentally unwittingly filming something / a journalist helpless to
> intervene / a journalist who can’t intervene due to danger / a
> journalist
> hypnotized by scene and the journalist as uninvolved witness.
>
> Both of these might be of interest
>
> Happy Easter,
>
> Victoria
>
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