Andy Warhol started his “Death and Disaster” photo series in 1962. The series would weave into his practice throughout the 60s and he produced over 70 pieces [sothebys]. Topics included car or plane crashes, suicides, homicides, electric chairs and death by tuna can poisoning. I’m not Andy Warhol so I won’t put words in his mouth, but I can talk about what meaning I get from them. I see this common human attraction of not being able to look away and media’s exploitation of the horribleness in the world. The images Warhol chose to reproduce are hard to look at. It was challenging to find an image that I could stand posting here. “Horrible” makes money. It makes money because it triggers a dopamine response in us. When selling more papers was the goal of newspapers, images of terrible death and disaster sold papers, In today’s mobile and online world, it now fuels the advertising dollars needed by media companies. It gets clicks.