Publisher's Synopsis
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 photographys 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
