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The photograph once served as a relatively removed document of warfare, now the image has become a powerful weapon within it.
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The photograph once served as a relatively removed document of warfare, now the image has become a powerful weapon within it. 
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For much of the 20th century, photography was the single most powerful method for conveying the horrors, triumphs, epic challenges, and small, daily struggles of warfare. Via Ricardo Vilela 
Peter Preston: Publishing graphic pictures of the dead and dying has become less taboo over the years; but the tone of vengeance Fleet Street adopted for this death was new (Have the images of Gaddafi's death pushed the boundaries of the media? 
Until October 18th, an exhibition at the Le Bal exhibition centre in Paris. [ITALIANO A SEGUIRE A FONDO PAGINA*] Presentation of Photojournalism Behind the Scenes, an auto-critical photo essay showing the paradoxes of conflict-image production and considering the role of the photographer in the events. 
In 1918, Opha Mae Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Via Ricardo Vilela 
Under the auspices of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), the WPAA meeting emphasised the urgent need for better female representation at national levels, where women can actively take part in decisions to prevent war and ... Website featuring photographs and descriptions from the book Without Sanctuary by Hilton Als and James Allen, with postcards of lynchings in America. 
Photographers who were in New York on 9/11 describe the carnage they witnessed and explain the visceral power of photographs to capture a moment. 
Tate Channel: Artists interviews, talks, performance art, exhibition films and more to watch and download... 
It's been more than two years since the supposed end of the war in Sri Lanka. The issues of concern are many, particularly with regard to the period after the end of direct combat. The Sri Lankan g... |
Three soldiers beat a defenseless woman, pull off her abaya, and drag her down a Cairo street... 
"More than 100,000 photographs, categorised by artist, genre, theme and, remarkably, buyer, have shed new light on the annual art exhibition, giving an insight into officially approved art of the Third Reich and the collecting taste of its citizens." 
Broadcasting footage of Muammar Gaddafi being manhandled was justified to convey scale of events, says corporation. By Josh Halliday (Was the media's use of gruesome Gaddafi images justified? 
#Photography The eye of war IV - Robert Capa and the Spanish Civil War http://t.co/TREvS118... 
Mark Lawson: The bloody images of the Libyan dictator's final moments violate principles of taste and privacy the media should not abandon... 
This photo, in which three American soldiers lie dead in the sand on Buna Beach in New Guinea, was taken in February 1943, but was not published until September. Via Ricardo Vilela 
For the New York Times staff photographer Tyler Hicks, war is no more and no less than who is near and whatever happens. C. J. Chivers reports on Mr. Hicks's photographs from the Afghan war over the past decade. Via Ricardo Vilela 
RT @csunorthridge: Identity and Affirmation: Post War African-American Photography Oct. 23 - Dec. 
U.S. jets drop napalm on Vietcong positions in 1962. "Napalm is the most terrible pain you can imagine," napalm survivor Kim Phuc said. 
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