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Pictures that say 1000 words (some pretty disturbing)
- Thread starter slsaico
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South of the DMZ 1966
Contrary to the constraints that were put upon the press in subsequent conflicts, and even to the embedded program used in the recent Iraqi war, correspondents and photographers in Vietnam could, as Walter Cronkite wrote in LIFE, ?accompany troops to wherever they could hitch a ride, and there was no censorship . . . That system?or lack of one?kept the American public well informed of our soldiers? problems, their setbacks and their heroism.? Reaching Out is a quintessential example of the powerful imagery that came out of Vietnam. ?The color photographs of tormented Vietnamese villagers and wounded American conscripts that Larry Burrows took and LIFE published, starting in 1962, certainly fortified the outcry against the American presence in Vietnam,? Susan Sontag wrote in her essay ?Looking at War,? in the December 9, 2002, New Yorker. ?Burrows was the first important photographer to do a whole war in color?another gain in verisimilitude and shock.? Burrows was killed when the helicopter he was riding in was shot down over Laos in 1971.
How Life Begins 1965
In 1957 he began taking pictures with an endoscope, an instrument that can see inside a body cavity, but when Lennart Nilsson presented the rewards of his work to LIFE?s editors several years later, they demanded that witnesses confirm that they were seeing what they thought they were seeing. Finally convinced, they published a cover story in 1965 that went on for 16 pages, and it created a sensation. Then, and over the intervening years, Nilsson?s painstakingly made pictures informed how humanity feels about . . . well, humanity. They also were appropriated for purposes that Nilsson never intended. Nearly as soon as the 1965 portfolio appeared in LIFE, images from it were enlarged by right-to-life activists and pasted to placards.
AP / Toronto Star
The body of a U.S. serviceman is dragged with ropes through the dusty
streets of war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, on Oct. 4, 1993.
The dead soldier was one of five Americans killed
during the first day of a major U.N. assault on warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid's military command.
On July 22, 1975, Stanley J. Forman took this infamous photograph while working for the Boston Herald. He climbed on the back of a fire truck as it raced towards a reported fire at Marlborough Street. Just as the crew had arrived at the scene, a young woman and small girl fell from an apartment above. The woman died instantly, but the young girl lived. This photo earned Forman a Pulitzer prize, and in addition, convinced Boston and several other cities to introduce more comprehensive fire safety laws.
On August the 29th Katrina hit Louisiana, most notably New Orleans where 80% of the city flooded because the flood protection system was breached in more than fifty places. The hurricane caused over $80 billion in damages and over 1800 people were confirmed to have died with over 700 missing.
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