Combat Photographer’s Last Photo a Resounding Media Failure – Reading The Pictures

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Combat Photographer’s Last Photo a Resounding Media Failure – Reading The Pictures

The rush to publish a combat photographer’s last photo led to a fundamental lack of context and a widespread, culturally tone-deaf photo editing failure.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2017/05/last-combat-photo/

Last week, western media and what seemed like most of the internet was irresistibly drawn to the cataclysmic last photograph of a U.S. Army photographer, Hilda Clayton