War Photography
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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.
By Joshua Yaffa
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.
By Dennis Zhou
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The Costs of War
Destruction, brutality, and terrible loss in Bucha, Kharkiv, Irpin, and elsewhere in Ukraine.
Photography by James Nachtwey
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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?
By Kyle Chayka
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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.
By Luke Mogelson
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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.
By Isaac Chotiner