homework#4

As I was reading the article I was actually changing my mind from, the picture is staged to the picture is not staged. At the end I came to the conclusion that the photo is not staged. I agree with all the points that Robert Whelan made. It was also very helpful to have the opinions of people who think the photo is totally fake. I believe that the photographs are not staged because who would want to stage war photographs.  The reason why this photograph doesn’t seem staged is because what photographer in that time and in a war would want to risk their life’s just to take a stage picture. The fact that some people think that soldiers would pretend to die just so a picture can come out “cool” is completely ridiculous. And I also think that weather it was staged or not it will still be seen as one of the greatest war photographs out there.