For five decades, the image was attributed to Associate Press photographer Nick Út. But a documentary recently released on Netflix is challenging this.
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The biggest Lee Miller show since 2007, this new exhibition tells her complex story through 250 modern and vintage prints, including previously unseen images.
War photos can have several, sometimes conflicting roles, ranging from evidence and testimony, to ‘trophies’ for the oppressor.
Photographer Lee Miller’s experience at Dachau, depicted in the film Lee, reminds us of the importance of photojournalists in war zones today.
Winslet battled for eight years to bring the extraordinary life story of Lee Miller to the big screen.
Well known foreign correspondents often put their own ideological spin on the Spanish Civil War.
Wartime photographs can be used for propaganda purposes.
Many images from the Ukraine war are compelling and distressing depictions of the human costs of war.
The ‘Napalm Girl’ photo is much more than powerful evidence of war’s indiscriminate effects on civilians. It also shows how false assertions can get traction in the media.
No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
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Profesor de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad, Universidad CEU San Pablo
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Senior Lecturer in Photography, Teesside University
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, American University School of Communication
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Southern Queensland
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Visiting Professor of Journalism, Emerson College
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DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, University of the Western Cape
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