Chapter 1 QCQ 

“And the pity and disgust that pictures like Hick’s inspire should not distract you from asking what pictures, whose cruelties whose deaths are not being shown” ” → This quote provokes the question of how unbiased can photographs be during war. Is there ever one side during war that goes without killing and cruelties? This starts to open the readers’ minds to challenge preconceived ideas about what photography and war mean. Is one type of death more important because it has been recorded? These are very heavy questions, and I don’t know the answer, but I think they are essential to keep in mind as people make judgments and form opinions on these types of images. 

Chapter 2 QCQ 

“ The war America waged in Vietnam, the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras, introduced the home front to new tele-intimacy with death and destruction” → I always found it so interesting that arguably the most protested war was also the first war that showed the public unfiltered realities of war. It seems like in previous wars, all photography, films, and the news were sorted and picked and then fed the public some viewpoint that corresponded with it. Vietnam had so many points of access that made the public able to calculate more of their own opinions. I wonder if the overwhelming anti-war movement during Vietnam would have been the same if those photos/news videos were not allowed to be seen by the general public?