Vietnam War Photography Impact

Photography has always been very important in our world history,it has in the past and will be in the future.It is an important way of documentation of the human life.It documents our people, events, and feelings by capturing that moment in time forever for anyone else who may come across the photo.”Looking back, documentary photography has made waves of impact as a method of truth-telling in difficult times, a way of exposing disturbing scenes to raise awareness of things like poverty and famine, to ultimately reshape the public’s opinion on government policies that were often the direct cause”(Markert 3).Photography has made a bigger impact on human life than many people may believe, the reason being that the change that it has made is over …show more content…
was winning, but that quickly changed after Tet Offensive, which was a turning point in media coverage of the war.After the Tet Offensive the reporters portrayed the war the way they saw it, which captured the attention of the public and made the American support for the war to rapidly decrease. As earlier mentioned, Henri Huet had many photographs from the battlefield that received a lot of attention.In response to seeing the his photos, a reader wrote back to the magazine saying this, “...Henri Huet’s pictures show us dedication to a human life, destruction and fatigue, all of which are symptoms of war, a matter which no one should take lightly”(Blome 16). Another photographer that was killed was Larry Burrows.He was held in high esteem among his peers but did not receive international recognition until 1965 for a photo-report, which he entitled "One Ride with Yankee Papa 13".It was documentary photography of the violence on a US Marine helicopter during a combat mission.The media coverage of the war made the people of America who were watching feel as if they were there on the front line and aided them in realized the complexity, intensity and brutality of