A Look at Conflict Photography

A journalist climbs out of the hole where toppled dictator Saddam Hussein was captured in Ad Dawr. Iraq’s defeated leader raised his arms out of his “rat hole” and said he was Saddam Hussein and that he wanted to negotiate. Iraq, December 15, 2003. Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME

This Means War: A Look at Conflict Photography -- Richard Lacayo, Time

“War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath,” is a huge, tough-minded and very moving new show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It lays out the ways cameras have been put to use during 165 years of world wars, undeclared hostilities and barely organized fang baring. Cameras turn out to be the transformer tools of warfare, adaptable as battlefield aids for reconnaissance and surveillance, as peerless instruments of propaganda and, above all, as a means to witness the atrocious facts of war. You may not be able to end war with a camera, but you can do a lot of useful things with one — even tell the truth.

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My Comment: An impressive collection of photos.