Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aram offered & asked: Subject: [Leica] OT- War Photography > With war and war photographers in the news and on the LUG lately, > I thought I'd pose a question. > I just started reading the book "Flags of Our Fathers" by James > Bradley. I am not into it enough to comment on the book itself, but it got me > thinking of war photos. What is the first photo that comes to mind when you think of > a particular war? I might suggest two photos that come to my mind about two wars. > > WWII was before my time, but I think the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi photo which > this book is about is probably the single photo that comes to my mind. > Another candidate might be Eisenstaedt's sailor kiss photo on V-J day. > > Vietnam is definitely in my time frame and the photo that comes to > mind that symbolizes that war is the young girl burned by napalm running > down the road. SNIP...... > Anyone else have photos that define a particular war?<<<< Aram, This is a tough call picking one photograph from each of the above. Simply because we've had several killing frenzies beyond those three, including the rediculous one right now! WW 2.... the city of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb!!! Then look at your neighbourhood and thank yer lucky stars you can see it. Korea....the expressive eyes and face of a GI, photographed by David Douglas Duncan Vietnam...The police officer shooting the VC in the head. The photo by Eddie Adams. I suppose if we had more time and space I'd offer any number of situations. Unfortunately they'd all point to the stupidity of humn kind to kill each other.:-( ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html