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ANALYSIS OF A WAR PHOTOGRAPH
NAPALM ATTACK ON TRANG BANG VILLAGE, VIETNAM WAR
NICK UT, PULITZER PRIZE WINNING PHOTO, 1973
INTRODUCTION
The first thing, the very first thing that strikes one about this photograph is the almost angelic stance of a nude skinny child contrasted with her contorted face. ...
Nick Ut won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for this photograph he took of the desperate victims of the Napalm Attack on the Trang Bang Village on the 8th of June 1972, towards the end of the Vietnam War.
This paper will examine issues this photograph brings out with extreme clarity and eloquence- the seamlessness of modern warfare, its assimilation of and impact on civilians, techniques, reasons, causes and effects…
THE IMPACT OF VISUALS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ON WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION
No wonder Jimmy Hare said that photographs seem to be the one thing that the war office is really afraid of. War Photography raises questions about freedom of the press, with government control inevitably at issue. ...
In wartime situations, photographs and visual media have found three functions, the first is for propaganda purposes, to give the masses illusions and make people believe in things that don’t really exist- such as Leni Riefenstahl did for the Nazi Party with her ‘Triumph of The Will’; the second, is to increase morale by repetitively showing people their victories and making small of their losses- such as in The Vietnam War; the third, and perhaps the rarest phenomenon of all is to actually shatter illusions and bring truth to the people- into which category falls Nick Ut’s masterpiece. ...
WAR: AS A NECESSITY AND FOUNDATION
Instead of being opposed to the Vietnam War, Walzer, according to the ideals and methods (of war) he advocated, should have waxed eloquent in extolling the virtues of this war. It should have been his perfect war of ‘humanitarian intervention’, for the United States of America to play the role of the ‘moral police force’. To fight war to give, or perhaps better put, enforce our moral standards and codes on the rest of the world would have been Walzer’s goal, to prevent ‘the evil of communism’ from spreading too far….
Approximate Word count = 1721
Approximate Pages = 6.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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