global war- documenting bloodshed

7/27/2019 Global War- Documenting Bloodshed

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Presented By:

Prabhleen KaurHimanshu Basoya

Inderpreet Kaur

Ashish Khemka

Vamika Arora


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WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THIS

PICTURE?


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On June 8, 1972, Trang Bang became one

of the thousands of villages destroyed in

the Vietnam War.

Villagers ran from the flames, Kim Phuc,

with her skin burning, the 9-year-old girl fled

naked down a road, screaming.

The naked little girl in the picture is Kim

Phuc

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Nick Ut , a photographer, was on the scene n

clicked the picture

He won a Pulitzer Prize for his photo of Kim

Phuc, taken on June 8, 1972, during the Vietnam

War.

His photograph of Kim embodied the brutality of

the Vietnam war, and became a shocking,

definitive image of the conflict.

Nick Ut also helped Kim in saving her life.

In an interview Kim said, Im so grateful he was

there.He helped me and rushed me to the nearest

hospital. He saved my life. Hes my hero


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Major mediums fordocumenting modern war

are :Films

Photography

Some other mediums: Painting

Sketching

Poetry


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In Afghanistan and Iraq, painters

are embedded in military units to record

wars in their paintings.

Artists like Britains Jules George

are expert at speedily sketching

gunfights, and depicting the monotonous

down time, framed by the beautiful

Afghan landscape, of everyday war

In 1995, BritainsGuardian newspaper

commissioned Tony Harrison as a poetic

correspondent to the Bosnian war.


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The poetry of James Fenton and Sarah Maguire also draws on close

observation of warzones: in Pomegranates of Kandahar,

Maguire compares the deep red of Afghanistans native fruit to the

bloodshed on the countrys streets.

Brian Turner s collectionHere, Bulletshows a different war: one full

of the adrenaline rush you crave / that inexorable flight, that insane

puncture / into heat and blood.

In Special Relationship, Harold Pinter uses stark imagery The

bombs go off / the legs go off / the heads go off to criticise

warmongering in Iraq.

One of the best war documentary film --the surreal plot and big-

budget effects of Francis Ford CoppolasApocalypse .


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Today, a relatively small number of people are serving on the

front line; in most countries, people are not directly touched by

war.

The way it is documented and portrayed whether through

journalism, poetry or art is the only way most of us know

anything about global wars.

Sometimes people would rather not know or ignore, as these

are sad and frightening.


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Conflicts are closely bound up with the

politics of your home country. Western

nations, for a start, are spending money

raised through citizens taxes on conflicts inAfghanistan and Iraq, and even if you do not

fight in these wars, friends or relatives might.

Turning a blind eye to wars suffering will

not make it go away: in fact, scrutiny helps

ensure that fewer war crimes and abuses

happen during conflicts


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IMPACT OFDOCUMENTING

WARS

Photographers & artists documents every detail of the war that they could

capture. They follow important generals and large forces, capturing the facesof soldiers and the horror of the bloodiest wars.

Proliferation of images changes the way the public perceives the war by

turning people removed from the fighting into eye witnesses of the carnage.


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People could observe what war did to soldiers, the conditions in field

hospitals, and the savagery of battle.

Advances in technology mean footage can be broadcast in seconds,

giving global audiences an unprecedented view of wars bloody reality.

Documenting war helps us understand its spectacular inhumanity,and appreciate the suffering that it causes.

Cont.


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1. Why is it important to document war?

2. Should people experience something first-hand

before they attempt to write about it?


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