Sunday 15 November 2009

100 years of great press photographs















I flipped through this in the Guardian, before breakfast. I would not recommend doing this, as the carnage and desolation explicit and implied may ruin your meal. Click on my post title to go there.
The images are arresting, and evoke very strong feelings. The one with the most impact, for me, was Leibovitz's; it shows a child's bicycle lying on the floor, a huge streak of blood adjacent. He was hit by a mortar, just in front of Leibovitz's car in Sarajevo during the siege. They took the boy to hospital but he died before he got there.

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