EED WAR PHOTOGRAPHYIf we have to understand the concept of war, you have to understand that death and destruction falls under this concept, but why do we need to produce images of people dying and suffering, do we have the right to photograph that? I believe that we, the people of this world, have the right to see images in direct response to government policy decisions, whether or not we can make a difference. We, of our generation, must take responsibility for recording and preserving the images so that future generations can try to understand the conflict. But I think our generation, which has the opportunity, via television or the Internet, to view images of conflict directly from the comfort of their homes, must understand the power of war photography.2 YESWe must preserve history, otherwise humanity will forget the mistakes of the past. . History can be documented using many types of media, verbal, written, and photographic accounts, to name a few. Written accounts can take hours to fully document a historical event. Photography can preserve the saved event in seconds and even after many years, photography will still show the real events whereas human memory can play tricks and over time it might erode all the finer details. A picture is worth a thousand words. A good example of photographs preserving history is “The Auschwitz Album”. Why, because it is the only surviving photographic evidence of the proceedings leading to the murder of a Jew arriving by train at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This album is unique because it was produced by the SS, either by Ernst Hofmann or Bernhard Walte, there does not appear to be any early handwritten evidence of the selection process of Hungarian Jews from Carpathians-Ruthenia in the early years of 1944. Part of ...... middle of paper ...... Checking his images, he found two photographs (taken seconds apart) that had good elements in each. He decided to combine the two to create an image of a British soldier telling Iraqi civilians to take cover while a tearful man carrying a child walks towards the soldier. The image was only discovered to have been manipulated after Colin Crawford, editor of The Times. the photograph has been informed of a replication in the image. Crawford spoke to Walski who confirmed he had digitally reworked the image. Crawford fired Wlalski for his deception. Walski later said: "After a long, difficult day, I put my altered image ahead of the integrity of the newspaper and the integrity of my profession," he said. “These other photographers are here [in Iraq] risking their lives and I just tarnished their reputation.” (Johnston, May 2003)

Essay / EED WAR PHOTOGRAPHYIf we have to understand the concept of war, you have to understand that death and destruction falls under this concept, but why do we need to produce images of people dying and suffering, do we have the right to photograph that? I believe that we, the people of this world, have the right to see images in direct response to government policy decisions, whether or not we can make a difference. We, of our generation, must take responsibility for recording and preserving the images so that future generations can try to understand the conflict. But I think our generation, which has the opportunity, via television or the Internet, to view images of conflict directly from the comfort of their homes, must understand the power of war photography.2 YESWe must preserve history, otherwise humanity will forget the mistakes of the past. . History can be documented using many types of media, verbal, written, and photographic accounts, to name a few. Written accounts can take hours to fully document a historical event. Photography can preserve the saved event in seconds and even after many years, photography will still show the real events whereas human memory can play tricks and over time it might erode all the finer details. A picture is worth a thousand words. A good example of photographs preserving history is “The Auschwitz Album”. Why, because it is the only surviving photographic evidence of the proceedings leading to the murder of a Jew arriving by train at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This album is unique because it was produced by the SS, either by Ernst Hofmann or Bernhard Walte, there does not appear to be any early handwritten evidence of the selection process of Hungarian Jews from Carpathians-Ruthenia in the early years of 1944. Part of ...... middle of paper ...... Checking his images, he found two photographs (taken seconds apart) that had good elements in each. He decided to combine the two to create an image of a British soldier telling Iraqi civilians to take cover while a tearful man carrying a child walks towards the soldier. The image was only discovered to have been manipulated after Colin Crawford, editor of The Times. the photograph has been informed of a replication in the image. Crawford spoke to Walski who confirmed he had digitally reworked the image. Crawford fired Wlalski for his deception. Walski later said: "After a long, difficult day, I put my altered image ahead of the integrity of the newspaper and the integrity of my profession," he said. “These other photographers are here [in Iraq] risking their lives and I just tarnished their reputation.” (Johnston, May 2003)

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