Combat Photography (2003)
Graham, Robert. (2003, September 19). Combat Photography [conference presentation]. Symposium for Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Quebec.
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The Immediacy of War Pictures: Fugitive Images and the “Soda-Straw Effect” (2003)
What can be said about photography in general is heightened in the case of modern combat photography, which has brought the images of war “home with immediacy.” 2 Immediacy is the collapse of spatial distance and temporal duration into the here and the now. Nowness is a condition of amnesia – unreflective, heedless of the past and indifferent to the future. Hereness is body-bound closeness, intimacy- no further than you can smell. Images of immediacy are proximate and fleeting, pictures hastily formed and consumed, fugitive and in close focus. Variations in speed and scope attend to different ways of experiencing and knowing.