John Mortell’s blog

The thing about history is that it can often be open to interepation. The story here tells a lot about this that you don’t get from the image. Obviously it’s wikipedia but even so it seems on the level.

This quote form Eddie Addams the photographer is certainly food for thought.

“The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths…What the photograph didn’t say was, ‘What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?’How do you know you wouldn’t have pulled the trigger yourself?”