“War/Photography”: A Comprehensive New Look at the World in Conflict

Total War: A New Look at Conflict Photography

In November, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will unveil an exhibition on war photography unprecedented in scale and ambition. The origins of …

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2012/09/war-photography-museum-of-fine-arts-houston.html#slide_ss_0=1

“We didn’t feel there was a real digging into the subject,” Tucker told me. The bodies of work they were finding were either homages to specific photographers, such as Robert Capa or Don McCullin, or books on specific battles and wars. “But other huge areas—military photography, amateur photography—these areas were missing, so we decided to go at it,” Tucker said.