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At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine

A new photo book by Eddy van Wessel, with nearly two hundred images taken over the course of three years, offers a visual history of the war’s devastation.
Critics at Large

“Civil War” ’s Unsettling Images

Alex Garland’s latest film, in which the U.S. has collapsed into brutal internecine conflict, has polarized audiences with its depiction of violence—and its evasion of politics. In art and in life, how do such visuals change the viewer?
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An-My Lê’s Uncanny Images of War

The Vietnamese-born photographer charts how conflict embeds itself in both physical and psychological terrains.
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The Costs of War

Destruction, brutality, and terrible loss in Bucha, Kharkiv, Irpin, and elsewhere in Ukraine.
Infinite Scroll

Watching the World’s “First TikTok War”

Social media’s aesthetic norms are shaping how Ukrainians document the Russian invasion. Is it a new form of citizen war journalism or just an invitation to keep clicking?
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“Relentless Absurdity”: An Army Photographer’s Censored Images

Ben Brody’s book has no narrative, because, from the perspective of an American infantryman in Baghdad, the war had none.
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Photographing Impeachment Proceedings Against Three Presidents

David Burnett, whose images from the Watergate hearings and Clinton impeachment have become iconic, will be on hand as the Senate decides the fate of Donald Trump.
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Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left

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Moises Saman’s Diary from the Middle East

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