regarding the pain of others

I felt that throughout the whole book the main point that she was trying to express was that photographs are a good way to show a expereince or a memory. They are used to show us things that maybe we are not able to expereience ourselves such as war. Or other times pictures can be used for more happy moment that we just want to remember. However, she appears to focus more on images that bring pain or maybe arent the peaceful.

The one thing that she does bring up that I thought was interesting was who are the ones taking these pictures. I guess that is something you dont really think of when you are looking at a picture. Well atlelast that something that I dont think of. The example that she uses in the book was when the atomic bombs were being dropped on Japan. She said that in the picture you could see the children running away from this bomb while you could see the debree is following behind them. Then she makes the point who is the one standing there taking this picture. I guess you could think, why is person here risking their life to take this picture? However, you seem to get the thought why is this person just standing there taking this picture rather then helping these children that are in danger?

The other example she uses is that there are picture of men at war that are in the middle ofombat. She states that there are image where the soilders are being shot at the moment and you could see them falling backwards as they are getting hit by a bullet. Now who would just stand there and watch someone lose their life for a picture. Could they be that heartless? or maybe it justs the way they capture what they call art? Well to me atleast I dont believe that watching someone lose their life is worth getting this picture. And to me it doesnt appear to be art. It more of a horrifying moment that I dont think should always be shown.