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Follows photojournalist James Nachtwey to hot spots including Kosovo, West Bank, and Indonesia, as he searches for a picture he thinks he can publish. A film about a committed, shy man, considered to be the most important war photographer of our time.

Shooting Under Fire is the candid testimony and stunning photography of the men and women who go into battle armed only with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. On September 11, 2001, America and the world learned in a devastating attack that warfare can just as easily occur on a beautiful day in the middle of one of the world's greatest cities as in a desert thousands of miles away. The world was made aware of this because photographers...

A four-part series that follows three combat photographers into conflict zones in Mexico, Libya, South Sudan, and Brazil.

The First World War ushered in the use of photography to document armed conflict, in addition to so many other technological innovations. This catalog, assembled by the National Gallery of Canada, includes studio portraits of soldiers and members of their families as well as official photographs that reflect the military and political objectives of the war.

"This book recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and illustrates the stories it tells and the questions it explores with a wide range of photographs, including a number never published before."--Jacket

"Ever since the landmark publication of Susan Sontag's On Photography, it has been impossible to look at photographs, particularly those of violence and suffering, without questioning our role as photographic voyeur. Are we desensitized by the proliferation of these images? Or do the images stir our own sense of justice and act as a call to arms? Are we consuming the suffering of others? What should our responses to these images be? To answer these...

"In September 1945 Joe O'Donnell was a twenty-three-year-old Marine Corps photographer wading ashore in Japan, then under American occupation. His orders were to document the aftermath of U.S. bombing raids in Japanese cities, including not only Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also cities such as Sasebo, one of the more than sixty Japanese cities firebombed before the atomic blasts. "The people I met," he now recalls, "the suffering I witnessed, and the...

In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders.