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Summary: Body parts.
Review: These very graphic and explicit photos of crimes against bodies come from just one city, Los Angeles and it made me think that hundreds of thousands of similar photos must be in police archives around the world. Fortunately nearly all of these were only be seen by the police, legal folk and juries.Katherine Dunn, who wrote the introduction, does not explain why LAPD detective Jack Huddleston kept a scrapbook of dead body photos and they are not only crime oriented, included are a few medical curiosities, plus a tattooed man, shrunken heads from Borneo and in the back of the book nine photos of the main US prisons. I think the inclusion of the non-criminal images does weaken the books premise though, was Huddleston just a prurient collector of the odd and bizarre? All the photos still have their white borders and the captions, either handwritten or typed, contribute to the format and feel of Huddleston's original scrapbook. The book's last two pages give a brief explanation of the retouching that brought out many of the details hidden in the shadows of the originals but I think the publishers should have gone that bit extra and used a finer screen than the 120 dpi and possibly a better quality paper, too. Flick through the pages and the overall impression is of greyness, so four stars. A book on slightly similar lines, 'Car crashes' (ISBN 3822864110) with photographs by Mell Kilpatrick (taken in the Los Angeles area for police and insurance companies) used a 200+ screen and glossy paper to make the strong images work. Read the other reviews and it is clear that this is a book that has, understandably, polarised readers, it is not fiction but fact and a solid visual record of the terminal damage done to the living by those who couldn't care less.
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Summary: Pictures of dead children-Sick
Review: Think about it. What would your family do if they saw pictures of you in these positions? What about if you saw a loved one or a friend? Would you really want people looking at pictures of your dead body or your dead child's body? Do you think that the people pictured would be happy about the way they are being exploited? These people had lives, family, and friends. What gives anyone the right? I really question anyone who would want to look at pictures of dead bodies just for the fun of it. This book should be reserved for people who photograph crime scenes for a living-not for someone's morbid curiosity.
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Summary: Disturbing, but amazing
Review: This book is a compilation of one man's collection of crime scene photos from Los Angeles throughout the 40's and 50's. The images are very graphic and let us see images we never would get to see unless we were members of the protective services. The black and white images somewhat create the illusion that what we see isn't quite real, although we know better. There is just enough information to understand the scenes. In my opinion, this is the best crim scene photo book available on the market.
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Summary: Disturbing, but amazing
Review: This book is a compilation of one man's collection of crime scene photos from Los Angeles throughout the 40's and 50's. The images are very graphic and let us see images we never would get to see unless we were members of the protective services. The black and white images somewhat create the illusion that what we see isn't quite real, although we know better. There is just enough information to understand the scenes. In my opinion, this is the best crim scene photo book available on the market.
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Summary: One way ticket to the gates of hell.
Review: This book is absolutely disgusting. If you are into this kind of thing, it's great. But also I should warn you that you are SERIOUSLY MESSED UP. Murder and brutality are not things we should celebrate. If you're looking to buy this, you're looking for a dance with the devil. I for one think you deserve it. Loser.
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Summary: A great pictorial view of crime and death
Review: This book is definately for people who are looking to explore the pictures and scenes of death and crime. The book is comprised completely of pictures from a detectives scrap book--be warned now that there is very little writing in this book. The pictures in the book are fascinating. When you look at the pictures you can almost feel how still and vacant the rooms must have felt at the time the photos were taken. Not all the photos in the book are death scenes, there are many pages of criminal head shots that include an explanation of the person crime under them. This part of the book is really interesting because it lets you get an idea of what the times were like back when the photos were taken. Many of the "crimes" they committed are not so by todays standard. This book is an interesting pictorial reflection on both death and the time period. Some of the photos in the book are graphic and some photos contain images of sexuality. However, don't think that this book is overly filled with gore. All the pictures are in black and white so the images are not as vivid as the would have been had the moments been recorded on colored film. I think this book is interesting and I would recommend it to anyone who was interested in crime and death scene photos.
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Summary: morbid,twisted,true
Review: this book is one of the best books i have ever seen on the market especialy if you want the sickest most morbid collection of pictures including, but not limited to suicides car wrecks,murders and even a section of dead babys and children my favorite is the one where a mom smacked her kids in the head with a hammer or the one with the infants head cut off by a meat cleaver..... but enough about that if you are sickend by this reveiw than dont get this book it is morbid, twisted but most importantly of all true!!!!!
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Summary: For all Morbid people like ME!
Review: This book is perhaps the most honest and morbid book in the market today,I had to order it here because my local bookstore would not order it for me!The text is an interesting essay on how this woman has viewed the purpose of the book.I am not here to tell you what the purpose is,but I will tell you this:It is good for the morbid part of you.(But never take it to school,I got mine taken away for two weeks before I got it back)
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Summary: Very honest and explicit.
Review: This book is wonderful...but not for the faint of heart. There are explicit crime scene photos...all B&W (which probably helps to lessen the graphicness of the pictures).
Many crimes are portrayed: suicide, murder, auto accidents, etc. And there are even pictures and text of things/people that we no longer see as against the law. Such things include lesbians and hermaphrodites. My how times have changed!
An interesting note is that one may notice how different the justice system was just 40 to 60 years ago. Within the text written by the detective, he lists some dates for events such as the arrest or execution of certain individuals. I realized that in the execution cases, the criminal was killed within a year or so from being convicted! Today the minimum jail time before execution is 13 years!
I also wanted to comment on what another reviewer stated about this book...this being the inclusion of images of dead children (and the fact that she wouldn't buy it due to this). These pictures are included, in my opinion, because that is reality! It is not only adults that are killed, or that have violent crimes commited against them. It is naive to think as such. And it is a fact that we all must face. Yes, it is shocking. But it is necessary. Young people die too. We hear about it every day on the news, so why it still remains so shocking is a mystery to me.
All in all, I recommend this book highly to people who are interested in death, crime and related subjects. It's real, straight forward and death IS a part of life.
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Summary: Very honest and explicit.
Review: This book is wonderful...but not for the faint of heart. There are explicit crime scene photos...all B&W (which probably helps to lessen the graphicness of the pictures). Many crimes are portrayed: suicide, murder, auto accidents, etc. And there are even pictures and text of things/people that we no longer see as against the law. Such things include lesbians and hermaphrodites. My how times have changed! An interesting note is that one may notice how different the justice system was just 40 to 60 years ago. Within the text written by the detective, he lists some dates for events such as the arrest or execution of certain individuals. I realized that in the execution cases, the criminal was killed within a year or so from being convicted! Today the minimum jail time before execution is 13 years! I also wanted to comment on what another reviewer stated about this book...this being the inclusion of images of dead children (and the fact that she wouldn't buy it due to this). These pictures are included, in my opinion, because that is reality! It is not only adults that are killed, or that have violent crimes commited against them. It is naive to think as such. And it is a fact that we all must face. Yes, it is shocking. But it is necessary. Young people die too. We hear about it every day on the news, so why it still remains so shocking is a mystery to me. All in all, I recommend this book highly to people who are interested in death, crime and related subjects. It's real, straight forward and death IS a part of life.
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