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This 4 page paper examines the concept of the photograph and why photographs are so powerful. Specific examples are cited.
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This is true in both large and small ways. In small ways, all one has to do is to go shopping on Ebay to see that the ads with photographs
get a lot more action than those auctions without pictures. Photographs in advertisements certainly draw attention. That is obvious. However, what is not so obvious is how one photograph can
change the way people think. This idea is true politically as well as in other ways. In respect to personal life, people carry pictures of their children and other loved
ones. The pictures are able to tweak emotions on a variety of levels. Yet, photographs also capture emotion when it comes to politics and ones worldview. During wartime, for
example, there are a myriad of images that come from abroad. In fact, the power of photography is so great that the U.S. government had recently tried to suppress important
images related to the war in Iraq. One example of this is the Abu Gharib pictures. Although many made it to television, and on the Internet, there are supposedly more
startling images to come from the same camera. Abu Gharib is just the tip of the iceberg. In an article printed by the Washington Post, the following information is
relayed: "Two defense intelligence officials reported seeing prisoners severely beaten in Baghdad by members of a special operations unit, Task Force 6-26, in June. When they protested they were threatened
and pictures they took were confiscated" ("War Crimes," 2004, p. A22). The idea of taking photographs to show atrocities is nothing new. Many people recall images of the Holocaust as
vivid displays of inhumanity to man. The stories are simply not as sickening or shocking as actually seeing piles of hair and bones and knowing that these remnants were once
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