proof that someone ran toward the gunfire so you could look away from it and still see.
means the practice of documenting armed conflict and its human cost through still images, usually at close and dangerous range.
from born in the crimean war (1850s) with roger fenton's staged calm, matured into raw truth-telling by the american civil war and matthew brady's corpse-strewn plates, then went handheld and immediate with robert capa in spain and normandy.
robert capa d-day — 11 blurred frames on omaha beach, 1944, nearly all he shot survived
nick ut napalm girl — 1972 photo of phan thi kim phuc helped end u.s. involvement
kevin carter vulture — 1993 sudan image won a pulitzer, he took his life a year later
james nachtwey rwanda — documented the 1994 genocide up close for years afterward