Sentences with phrase «into rubberneckers»

High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking, callous media treatment, turning us all into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously works against that tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very human reasons why we do so.

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Part of a series of self - portraits that the artist has made of herself in the prosthetically - aided guise of artists that are important to her — a «spiritual family album» that has included Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, and August Sander — this piece transforms Wearing into Arthur Felig, aka Weegee, the legendary photographer of hideous crimes and the rubberneckers who gawk at them.