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What compels people to look at shocking photographs or, alternatively, to look away? Should the press 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? This book addresses these questions by examining how the press presents unsettling pictures, especially those of dead and injured foreigners. Drawing on recent experiences in the Persian Gulf, Bosnia and Rwanda, the author argues that documentary photography, for all the horror it reproduces, ultimately defines a democracy.

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<p> 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.

<p> 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 Ethics ,

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 Ethics

""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 Ethics

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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.

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