Tyler Hicks, Girls at a Gaza school were stunned to find it closed. An emboldened Hamas may lead Israel to harden its stance. 2012
We have discussed the documentation of war through out the semester. War photography is a special genre that is still practiced today by some photojournalists. The New York Times Tyler Hicks is a veteran war photographer who has covered numerous conflicts, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and recently, Gaza. Hicks was interviewed via phone on his experience of documenting the fighting in Gaza City. Read the short interview to get a glimpse of what it’s like to work as a war photographer in our times. Please be aware that some of the photographs in the NYT’s slideshow have graphic content.
Tyler Hick’s Interview, A Responsibility to Photography, and Remember
What’s the big deal about captions? Notice how Hicks discusses the necessity for accurate captions. On Sunday, November 25, 2012, the New York Times published this photograph of the school girls with a caption that has caused the photograph to be labeled “disgraceful”, “pro-Israeli,” “Orwellian,” and “shameful.” Read the exchange between between the New York Times and The Nation here.
What do you think of Hick’s photographs? the documentation of war? or photo editors? Please share your opinions with your classmates here.
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Hick’s photos show the reality and damages of war with in countries like Gaza, and how humanity still repeats its mistakes from the past. I like the photos just hate what’s happening to people in the images. However I feel that by showing these types of photos to everyone in the U.S will only bring Americans to get involved in other countries isues, when it shouldn’t because diplomacy obviously is not used well and everyones answere is to fight fire with fire, then we will all get burned. There is both a good and a bad about the photos effects on the world. It’s a good thing to make everyone see the issues around them and make them feel compation but the bad is that inorder to resolve the war many other innocent people must die, which is not fair .
I think the War Photography captures the war’s brutality, suffering of the civilians, destruction of the life and cities. As a believer in peace, when i see these photos by Tyler Hicks it gives me chills to see a wife become widow and a kid orphan. The bomb dropping has a long lasting impact on the people living in the area. If one loses something or someone precious to him/her it leads to rise of revenge and hate. These images show the destruction and devastation of the attack, destroyed buildings, civilians in pain, frustration and total chaos. I think Hicks tries to show these images to everyone around the world to get everyone’s attention to be more aware of the situation. War is not the solution to the problem only thing it leads to is lose of Innocent lives, destruction and sometimes these wars are caused by the politicians. War documentation makes everyone look at the situation and makes us think that it should be stopped. It makes us want to question ourselves “what is going on?” or “Why?” If everyone is aware of the situation it leads to the solution but fighting is not always the solution.