War Photography has been around for year and years and there's always been questions about their representation of the truth. There has always been a partiality of the representation but some want to know does photography shows the wars up close and personal or they might say what’s the purpose of war photography.
Some people believe that the purpose of war photography Is that it has shifted throughout the years. During the earlier years of war photography the photos were purely used to inform the public and for the public to see what happen during that particular war at that time. But in contrast, some recent war photography, due to the censoring of some photos has become nothing more than just propaganda and staged and the …show more content…
War photography as an activity beyond the war zone itself because it allows people around the world to see how people after the war look and how they got through the war alive.
The decision to take these photos of the war from many years makes war seem like what it is, a chronic condition, a perennial dysfunction in most families of men. At the same time most say the chronology is useful for motioning how pictures became so important to understand the conflict of what happen. The real problem for war photography today, isn’t the lies about the photos but telling the truth about what really happened. They may not be able to compel any particular way or judgement of the wars they might represent, but they can lead you to a recognition of what the person wants the viewers to see. But after that, if photos itself can’t stop the war and they can’t fault the ones who takes these photos, it's not the pictures but the ones who takes them.
So, if we are not being spared from the extremely graphic photos, would it change our perception of wars or even change the world's view of things or maybe for who we vote for?