Has War Changed, or Only War Photography? – The New York Times

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Has War Changed, or Only War Photography?

In the decades between Robert Capa and Lynsey Addario, our image of battle lost its aura of nobility.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/arts/design/war-photography-addario-capa-icp-sva.html

Many Americans no longer regard war as a righteous undertaking — and war photography has played a part in changing our perspective. Pictures in Korea (notably those of David Douglas Duncan) and, even more, those in Vietnam (by Larry Burrows and Don McCullin in particular) stripped warfare of its glamour and romance, zeroing in instead on blood, mud, fatigue, injury and viciousness. Television footage amplified the horror.