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A Picture is Worth 1000 Words. Still photography not only has the power to stop time … but to stop us…. We study a picture and learn things we never imagined knowing…. We feel emotions we never touched before….
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Still photography not only has the power to stop time … but to stop us…
We study a picture and learn things we never imagined knowing…
And sometimes, after looking at an image, we realize that we will never be the same again.
Execution of Viet Cong On Nguyen Ngoc Loan and his famous photograph, Eddie Adams wrote in Time “The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?”