The Numbing Sameness of War Footage | The New Yorker

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The Numbing Sameness of War Footage

The proliferation of images via cell phones may have taken away the war photographer’s ability to create a single, arresting, and iconic image, but their accumulation will haunt us.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-numbing-sameness-of-war-footage

neither the cell phone video nor the drone will explain what has really happened. They are better processed as phenomena of social media, which never really tells us anything new but, rather, provides an endless stream of confirmations of what we think we already know