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Originally Posted by Motivfindender
Wilfredo,
As for Vietnam:
In fact, it was the photographers victory, that this slaughterhouse ended. The strength of their Photos, their Films. Some of them sacrified their lifes for free information.
In "embedded" Photographers times this type of journalism doesn´t exist furthermore.
And THAT is a nightmare.
Dirk
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This is so tragically true. The U.S. media has totally sold out on the current war in Iraq. I believe Nick Ut was the pulitzer prize winning photographer that took the picture with the greatest impact on the publics perception of the war in Vietnam (with a Leica M2 I might add
Huỳnh Công Út - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). I haven't seen anything like his pictures to date on the war in Iraq. It is as if the more than 100,000 civilians who have been killed there don't matter. Perhaps it doesn't matter because they are Arabs? Certainly the media has done a great job of presenting all of them as the enemy terrorists of the world.
I met Nick Ut last Saturday (
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-...t-nick-ut.html) I posted pictures of him on our forum, and it generated hardly any interest. I'm not sure what to make of it.
Regards,
Wilfredo
Benitez-Rivera Photography