June 4, 2004
Pictures, more than ever, tell Iraq story
A wonderfully written article by Geoff Pevere for The Star on Michael Moore's amazing footage of Iraq provided by "anyone with a camera and a conscience".
To Pevere, the power of these images lies in their unofficial status and in comparing Irak to Vietnam, he makes an interesting point:
"It's been widely said that pictures were the undoing of the Vietnam war, but that was a different war and those were different pictures. Journalists weren't "embedded" in that conflict, and the pictures they took only tended to contradict the official story when the general tide of public opinion began to swing against the war. Most significantly, the pictures that we watched during "the living room war" were taken by journalists. The most explosive images of the war in Iraq — those of prisoners being abused and humiliated — were taken by soldiers themselves".
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/picturephoning/archives/2004/06/004043.htm
| Tweet |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
