Darkside II

Darkside II

Darkside II

Photographic Power and Photographed Violence, Disease and Death

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9783865219251

    Urs Stahel

    Johannes Binotto

    12-Oct-2009

    Hardback

S$100.00

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Following the survey of photographed sexuality and lust in Darkside I, the other end of the physical spectrum is illuminated: the intimate affinity between death and photography  impairment, disease, degeneration, violence and death, pain, grief and loss. Recording death is, along with war reporting, one of photography s original tasks. Pictures of horror are often shocking and yet  bestselling . They provoke questions about exploitation, complicity and power relationships  in front of and behind the camera and in the photograph itself. Photography often provokes accusations that it aestheticizes misery, creating a 

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