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American Photography A Century of Images

...... Nothing like this existed at the time. There were photographs in newspapers, but they were black and white and often muddy and difficult to see. Life Magazines photographs, first in black and white and later in color were actually larger than life. In one photo spread of several pictures, an entire story could be told from the beginning to the middle to the end. It was only when the computer arrived that the magazine lost its luster. Yet, it had a long run, and greatly impacted millions of readers
The still photographs during the Viet Nam War also impacted millions and proved that it did not take an entire photo spread, four color or dark room maneuvers to impact the viewers. Whereas Hine normally captured posed photographs, many of the photographers during the Viet Nam War captured the action. They stopped time and forced people to see the agony that existed during that one one hundredth of a second, be it at Kent State University when the guards shot the students, in Viet Nam as the nude girl ran down the street after being napalmed or in Cambodia when the monk burned in his own fire. These horrifying photos