Death Scenes : A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
Death Scenes : A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
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Warning: this sad, powerful, grotesque collection of black-and-white photos of mostly dead, often naked, human beings is not for the easily disturbed. The introductory text by Katherine Dunn (author of Geek Love) helps give a context to the macabre scrapbook, and the handwritten captions display irony and sometimes humor; but this is no antiquarian's sentimental portrait of the past. This book documents butchery and brutality, horrible disease and mental illness, suicide and murder. And as Dunn observes, the eye of the beholder is not innocent: "The old cop, like the old con, tries to trick us into forgiveness and complicity. By witnessing he has participated, by understanding he is culpable. And his real purpose is to disguise the truth--that he started out terrified and ended up liking it, fascinated, an aficionado."
Book Description
The strange and gruesome crime-scene snapshot collection of LAPD detective Jack Huddleston spans Southern California in its noir heyday. Death Scenes is the noted forerunner of several copycat titles.
Death Scenes : A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
Death Scenes : A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook,Sean Tejaratchi,Feral House,0922915296,Murder,Murder - General,Murder victims,Nonfiction - True Crime / Espionage,Photo Essays,Pictorial works,Social Science / Popular Culture
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