Death of the historic war photograph

Photojournalists around the world agree that the monumental snapshot of war, epitomised by pictures like Robert Capa's Falling Soldier from the Spanish Civil War, and Vietnamese Nick Ut's children running from a napalm attack in 1972, has lost its power on contemporary internet-using audiences.

Internet viewing figures show a shift in attitude towards pictures of war. People no longer trust old style current events photography, and appear to be losing interest in it.


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Photography as a Weapon

NYT article on photography by Errol Morris

Photography as a Weapon

Baghdad 5 years on

A Guardian journalist returns home to Iraq to find that far from what we hear in the US, the surge has produced nothing approaching normalcy or peace, but rather ghettos seething with violence, with nothing but makeshift walls dividing the increasingly hostile warring factions.

US claims that the military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By traveling through the heart of Baghdad its easy to see by enclosing the Sunni and Shia populations behind 12ft walls, the surge has left the city more divided and desperate than ever.”

Check out parts 2 and 3 of this very candid view of Iraq:

Baghdad, 5 years on (part 2 of 3): killing fields

Baghdad 5 years on (part 3): Iraq’s lost generation