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 …
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