Photography Month
Some LJ friends have decreed September to be Photography Month. I don't know the first thing about photography as art, so I'll try photography as history.
Dead soldiers, Gettysburg.
WWI Australian soldiers swimming, just before embarking for Gallipoli and certain death.
A lynching in Indiana, 1930.
V-J Day.
Margaret Bourke-White's portrait of the aging Gandhi at his spinning wheel, committing an act of civil disobedience.
The crew.
Famous photograph of 9-year-old Phan Kim Phuc and others fleeing from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.
Tiananmen Square.
Berlin Wall falls.
Afghani women publicly protesting Taliban law.
Dead soldiers, Gettysburg.
WWI Australian soldiers swimming, just before embarking for Gallipoli and certain death.
A lynching in Indiana, 1930.
V-J Day.
Margaret Bourke-White's portrait of the aging Gandhi at his spinning wheel, committing an act of civil disobedience.
The crew.
Famous photograph of 9-year-old Phan Kim Phuc and others fleeing from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.
Tiananmen Square.
Berlin Wall falls.
Afghani women publicly protesting Taliban law.