Dead On The Beach [1943] - George Strock
Haunting photograph of a beach in Papua New Guinea on September 20, 1943, the magazine felt compelled to ask in an adjacent full-page editorial, "Why print this picture, anyway, of three American boys dead upon an alien shore?" Among the reasons: "words are never enough"
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On a forum I visit and post regularly (Big Day Out forum) it is not very often that someone makes a thread that everyone on the forum is in forms the same opinion. In this case, a forumer named 'Omerta' put up a thread featuring a whole lot of historic pictures and a small description of each one. There are some amazing photos in there. There are some sad ones too. The photo above is the one of the lot that really stuck me.
If you would like to check out the pictures, you can go here to visit the thread on the forum
If you would like to check out the pictures, you can go here to visit the thread on the forum
2 comments:
Definably a stamp in time, even if its slightly morbid. It shows reality, and reality is what peopel seek sometimes.
I think that whoever has a problem with the publication of these photographs is in some kind of denial about what war actually is.
I think if Bush was shown pictures of the bodies of every man, woman and child who has died as a result of the war on Iraq, he'd go to the next room and shoot himself in the head.
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