War photography
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War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places. Photographers who participate in this genre may find themselves placed in harm's way, and are sometimes kill
Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam, 1862, Alexander Gardner
General Wool and staff in the Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico, taken by an unknown photographer during the Mexican-American war, ca.1847
Captured Sikh guns of the Sikh Empire parked in Ambala Cantonment in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, calotype or daguerreotype by John McCosh, circa April 1849.
Roger Fenton was one of the first war photographers. He captured images of the Crimean War (1853–1856)
The Terror of War
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The Terror of War, colloquially known as Napalm Girl, is a photograph taken on 8 June 1972. It shows a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napal
War photography
…enough to be carried on one's person. Canadian soldier Jack Turner secretly and illegally brought a camera to the battlefront and made photographs. The Terror of War, 1972, by Nick Ut In the 20th century, professional photographers covered all the major conflicts, and many were killed as a consequence, among which…
The Terror of War; Phan Thi Kim Phuc is the girl depicted running naked in the center of the image