[Leica] War Photos

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

It was a fact that is apparent NOW but in the heat of combat it wasn't
so obvious by any means. The situation that lead up to the shooting
illustrate the "fog of war" most clearly.

Clearly when keeping prisoners inside the active zone of warfare they
should, somehow, be marked. Although that's not to say that the
insurgents wouldn't mimic that as soon as they found out about it.
Already during the course of combat they wore the uniforms of the
Iraqii troops. When you confuse the issue about who you are you get
events like this.

Adam


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:04:05 -0500, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> It's one of the stronger photos to come out of this mess, but it doesn't
> begin to touch Don MucCullin's iconic photo of the burnt out Marine at
> Hue...
> 
> But how about the video being shown last night on CNN of the Marine
> killing the wounded Iraqi prisoner...speaking of winning hearts and
> minds, and the power of images...
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:22 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] War Photos
> 
> For those of us too young to live through WWII, Korean War, or even the
> Vietnam War, what do y''all think of this photo?
> 
> http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/15/marine.photo.ap/index.html
> 
> To me, it has a little bit of gritty intense feel of DDD's photos?
> 
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,
> please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
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