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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