War photo essay

A great change came during WW1 and WW2. War images were not the only way war was portrayed, but motion pictures also came along. The motion pictures gave a whole new perspective on war to the American people. Thus, by seeing this influence, many powerful leaders saw an advantage.

During the pre-Civil War era, the technology of photography was rare or still in development. All renderings of war were either in paintings or in literature. Since artists were the only people capable of creating…show more content… Writers following the Civil War wrote novels in response to the violence.

Mark Twain was one of the writers who discussed this kind of scenario in one of his novels. “’In that explosion all our noble civilization-factories went up in the air and disappeared from the earth…twenty-five thousand men lay dead around us’” (Franklin 814).

And all of a sudden, images of war became of shear violence and destruction. The violence in these images would play a significant part in the social and political standpoints of war in our nation.