Summary Of Torie Deghett's The War Photo No One Would Publish

An image has the explicit power of telling a story without saying any words, that’s the power behind a photo. A photo tends to comes with many sides to a story, it has the ability to manipulate and tell something differently. There is a tendency in America, where explicit photos of war or anything gruesome occurring in the world are censored for the public view. This censorship hides the reality of our world. In “The War Photo No One Would Publish” Torie DeGhett centers her argument on censorship, detailing the account of graphic Gulf War photo the American press refused to publish. (73) DeGhett argues that the American public shouldn’t be restrained from viewing graphic content of the war occurring around the world. She believes that incomplete

She gives an example by describing the photo Kenneth Jarecke photographed of the Iraqi man burned alive and in which he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. (73) But Unfortunately the media wouldn’t run the image because no one knew the true story behind the picture, not even DeGhett and she tried describing her perspective saying, “At one point, before he died this dramatic mid-retreat death, the soldier had had a name. He’d fought in Saddam Hussein’s army and had a rank and an assignment and a unit. He might have been devoted to the dictator who sent him to occupy Kuwait and fight the Americans. Or he might have been an unlucky young man with no prospects, recruited off the streets of Baghdad. Or he might have been an unlucky young man with no prospects, recruited off the streets of Baghdad.” (74) As a result, the media didn’t want to publish Kenneth Jarecke photo because the photo is deceiving plus the media tries to shield the public from grim images of the war. It was possible that viewers would contradict the image. The United States did not people seeing these types of event occurring or the possibility of them thinking it was an American

Images can manipulate many scenarios but it’s tactic used to show the realities of our world. Despite what we see, picture taken of the war and events occurring in the war doesn’t mean they aren’t real. We all live in a messy world and history is constantly repeating itself. Pictures are taken to spread awareness and empathy. It is a reason DeGhett argued that the Iraq brunt solider photograph taken by Kenneth Jarecke should have been posted in order for the public to get a sense that the war occurring at the moment is nothing like in the movies. Images are powerful and we must learn to always look closely and