Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Marine Mop-up

W. Eugene Smith
Marine Mop-up
Following Japanese Suicide Charge
Saipan, 1944

Since the Vietnam war abject images like the one above have been increasingly censored. I chose this image by Smith because of his importance to documentary photography and to point out how much documentary imagery has changed in the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. Images like this would likely be censored in a modern war because they are unpopular to audiences and may insight opposition to military operations.

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