This form of photography shocked the whole world as it took away everything they believed in when it came to the justifications of war. The propaganda which brainwashed ordinary civillians into a dream like state where they were told "war was a good thing" was shattered as reality suddenly settled in.
The photograph was taken by eddie adams, seconds before the vietcong operative was mercilessly executed in public. This snapshot was very quite notorious as it stirred up many emotions in people because most individuals interpret images like this in a very unique manner but this photograph had only left sympathy for the reason that unless you were there and had understood the very context of this image you cant help but feel sorry for the vietnamese as he appeared very innocent in the picture and looked like he was pleading for mercy whilst the executioner looked very cold and heartless whic h caused a biased analysis.
Robert capa a now known famous photojournalist, had taken some of the most controversial photographs of various wars and had captured shocking images of fallen soldiers and the battlefield.
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Shamim there is a lack of detailed reference to Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro. Also try and draw out your conclusions from the types of war photography that you have seen. For example when working on your war photojournalism can you discuss what the effect of this instant snapshot has had on our perception of war? Also the image was not of the execution, if you are going to borrow text from the internet can you please label it in italics?
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