Scholars of wartime

Scholars of wartime

Scholars of wartime photojournalism agree that media primarily adhered to the public view in its coverage during the Vietnam War. They only turned to be critical when the United States population opposed the battle in 1967 (Wade, 2015). A similar Consensus to that of the scholars of wartime photojournalism before 1967 was that of photojournalists. Their works are discovered to be lack criticism of the war.

An image demonstrates several words. This statement particularly applies to the photography realm. Iconic images taken amidst combat may have a deeper, powerful symbolic effect in getting the public’s attention and imagination. By doing so and relying on the conflict context being fought, for example, war, iconic imagery can affect both the process of making decisions and its adoption by other viewers after the war (Tan, & Engelmann, 2017). In the iconic photograph of the ‘Napalm Girl,’ the nude girl’s image is imposed on one of the soldiers’ images. It makes it difficult and confusing for the audience to analyze any of the two subjects overlapping correctly. For the first subject, the viewers may be tempted to extend their image analysis to the second subject that overlaps from the head. However, for the second subject analysis, the viewers may confuse the first subject as being an aspect of the second subject and that the first subject influences it.