1 Part 1:
1. Does the new technology that is coming out in photography change the quality of the photograph?
2. Should they censor photography and television during war times?
3. Why don't they show deaths in Europe like they do in Africa?
Part 2:
2 2. Should they censor photography and television during war times?
In Susan Sontag’s piece “Regarding the Pain
of Others,” she talks about the photos being taken by photographers of people
about to die and after.
She talks about
a certain photograph of a Vietnamese prisoner being shot in the street near
photographers. I remember seeing that photograph in my history of photography
class last semester, it is a very powerful photograph, you could see the fear
in the prisoners face and you could see the chief’s face looks stone cold with
no remorse and the soldier in the back showing his anger towards the prisoner. Part
of Sontag’s piece reminded me of the time I went to the Tolerance Museum and
seeing photographs of dead bodies as well as people on the verge of death. Through
the middle of the museum, I remember crying until I left because the experience
was so powerful. It would be pretty hard for one not to be affected by the photographs
and video clips of what the Jewish people went through for those years. I don’t
think they should censor photographs that are shown in museums, newspapers, or galleries
because I feel that people should see what others got through and see during
the war. They should also make it equal by showing the death of the “enemy” as
well as our own soldiers to show all sides of the war. Television is another
issue because children have an easier access to televisions. It’s hard for
adults to avoid the news during war times and it would be harder for them to
explain the pictures being shown.
Those
types of pictures would also be frightening to children.
Yes these types of pictures would be hard for the
people who know the victims in a personal level but they can use those picuresas
a form of grieving as wells as showing others that war may not be the answer.
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