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  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: Feral House,U.S. (26 April 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0922915296
  • ISBN-13: 978-0922915293
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 20.1 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 247,869 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A hard-boiled, adults-only look at true crime in old Los Angeles.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great photobook, actual scrapbook kept by a detective., 25 Jul 2000
Anyone interested in death photography, the history of murder/suicide or just plain death itself should buy this book. The introduction, by Katherine Dunn, seeks to find out why a homicide detective would keep a scrappbook full of pictures from death scenes he has witnessed. It also offers explanations to some of the pictures that make up the main part of the book, although the number of pictures it does give histories of/explanations about is quite low in number, which lets the rest of the book down slightly. However, the photos all tell a story on their own and the end of the book allows us to peek into how the photos had deteriorated over time and how they were painstakingly enhanced so it would be possible for us now to see them as they once were. If you want a book to shock yourself or others with then look no further. But be warned, the images in this book are not a joke, these photos are extremley graphic in their nature (i.e. a roadtraffic victim is shown. The body in the background with the head decapitated in the foreground.) The reader is reminded that these were once living people, the book is not intended an a "gore-fest" but a priveliged look at past scenes of death that a detective witnessed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars see it to believe it, 5 Jun 2001
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This is a brilliant book- be the talk of all your friends- be sure to leave it lying on the coffee table when the in laws come to visit!. the photos are graphic- but because the photos are in black and white it takes the edge off the gore- if like me you are fasinated by death but don't do the blood stuff- this is for you.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Body parts, 3 Jul 2004
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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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