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War photography Is war photography a testimony or is it a statement? Which are the functions, the purposes of war photography? What can be (already was) accomplished by showing such images? Why does it worth risking one’s life to take those pictures? What makes people choose such a profession? Why are people interested in these photos? War photography is the subject of my bachelor degree paper and these are some of the questions I’m dealing with. If you are a war photographer, a journalist, a well-informed person or a not so informed one willing to take a wild guess and you have some spare time to answer one, some or all of these questions I will be grateful.
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It's a testimony to the different sides of humanity you could say. Also a statement. It's important to show what really happens to people in war. Soldiers, civilians, everybody. War photography can inform, it can involve, and it can change peoples opinions. Several years before the Russians were the first to reach the concentration camps, refugees from eastern europe tried to escape to the u.s. but they were turned away. And before the u.s. go into wwII, some jewish people tried to get the u.s. government to help, but they didn't believe that was really going on. So photographs can be evidence, they can be show what things are really like. And like the persian gulf war, where you had video from missles with an on board camera. That detacted everybody from it being people lives that were at risk. Some people say it made it like a video game to the people who watched on tv. And photographs have a way a taking a moment, and making it stand out and force you to think about the bigger picture. Whereas video can seem to make things impressionable for as long as the clip last, or as long as a news show wants to show it. Sometimes it's like a video of an event, even if it's a tragic situation, once you run the tape and it's over, it seems to have an effect that when the tape is over, the ramifications of what it showed are no longer thought about. But if you have a photograph, a frozen moment, then people seem to think more about, who is in the photograph, what's going to happen to their family, what would it be like to be in that situation, how would I react, did anybody else get effected or end up in the same situation. And also, the armed forces can't be counted on to tell you what's really going on. And there are times, even if they are rare, that war photography when reveal what actually happens.
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