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 those of dead and injured 'foreigners.' Drawing on recent experiences in the Gulf, Bosnia and Rwanda, Taylor argues that documentary photography, for all the horror it reproduces, ultimately defines a democracy.Fully aware of the voyeuristic aspects of photojournalism, Taylor probes the difficulty of
