horrible injustices that were occurring overseas through photographs and other forms of propaganda. Through these documentations and photographs, society was deeply impacted. There were many vivid and striking events captured by photographers during this time, some even became iconic Vietnam War
Essay on Apocalypse Now War is not a new phenomenon. We have experienced war for decades, actually centuries. War is violent, emotional and hit with many people, also many years after - Soldiers, family, friends and people far out in the future. In the movie “Apocalypse Now” from 1979 we see the soldiers' position in the Vietnam War. During the war between Vietnam and the United States, there have been many brutal and terrible assaults. The assaults have been committed against both Vietnamese and
Nick Ut’s ‘Napalm Girl’ A captured moment of desperation and terror; amidst the suffrage of the Vietnam war quickly became one of the most influential photographs in the world. Phan Thi Kim Phuc was nine years old when she was photographed, naked and screaming, running towards the camera after an aerial napalm attack by the South-Vietnamese air force on her village near Trang Bang in South Vietnam. Vietnamese American photographer Nick Ut, was 21 when he took the photograph of the ‘Napalm Girl’
somber mood – contrasted by a bright orange, representing the sun at dusk. Seizing the viewer’s attention is a figure in a boat, an effect the artist has achieved by painting the background boats a lighter, blurrier gray. Not only is this technique executed in this painting, but on a vast majority of Monet’s work. However, Monet’s Water Lilies series could serve as a counterclaim to such statement, as they fail so focus on a single subject, instead blurring everything on the canvas. Edgar Degas exceeds
PHOTOGRAPHY If we need to understand the concept of war you must realize that death and destruction falls within that notion, but why do we need to produce images of people dying and suffering, do we have the right to photograph this? I believe that we the inhabitants of this world have the right to see images in direct response to the decisions government’s policies, whether or not we can make a difference. We of our generation must take responsibility to record and preserve images so that future