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leob · 05/07/08, 08:09 PM

regarding the embedded journalism,
as you said, the uncensored images from the ground level in vietnam surely did their part to confront the public with the cruelty of war and i guess everybody got some of the most powerful images burnt into the Collective memory just like napalm into skin.

But just because of the "uncomfortable" experience the us military made in vietnam with all thees free war-photographers/filmers and reporters they started their embedded program for the media in iraq, which did a great job in controling most of the media comming out of over there.
(of course the couldn´t bann the media while waging war, otherwise it would have been very complicated to blame countrys like china for banning journalist from tibet.. perhaps the chinese should start to embed some mediaguys themself?)

But back to Salgado,
i adore his work, just like the work of Nachtwey and Pellegrin (and several uncounted war-photographers) and it always amazes me how well they all handle their cameras while maintaining good composition while beeing in a battle.

05/07/08, 08:09 PM	#15 (permalink)
leob Benutzer Join Date: 05/29/07 Location: Berlin Posts: 75	AW: Sebastiao Salgado regarding the embedded journalism, as you said, the uncensored images from the ground level in vietnam surely did their part to confront the public with the cruelty of war and i guess everybody got some of the most powerful images burnt into the Collective memory just like napalm into skin. But just because of the "uncomfortable" experience the us military made in vietnam with all thees free war-photographers/filmers and reporters they started their embedded program for the media in iraq, which did a great job in controling most of the media comming out of over there. (of course the couldn´t bann the media while waging war, otherwise it would have been very complicated to blame countrys like china for banning journalist from tibet.. perhaps the chinese should start to embed some mediaguys themself?) But back to Salgado, i adore his work, just like the work of Nachtwey and Pellegrin (and several uncounted war-photographers) and it always amazes me how well they all handle their cameras while maintaining good composition while beeing in a battle. __________________ www.grayscale-berlin.de.vu you don´t need to be a freak, to be a photographer, but it sure helps!