And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type of hi
WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
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Unknown Japanese photographer, War in Hawaiian Water. Japanese Torpedoes Attack Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Robert Capa’s famous “The Falling Soldier” was taken in 1936, a few weeks after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
Dmitri Baltermants, Attack—Eastern Front WWII, 1941
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Henri Huet, The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is raised up to an evacuation helicopter, Vietnam, 1966
Philip Jones Griffiths, Called "Little Tiger" for killing two "Viet Cong women cadre"—his mother and teacher, it was rumored, Vietnam, 1968
Louie Palu, U.S. Marine Gysgt. Carlos “OJ” Orjeula, Afe 31, Garmsir District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
"Highway 13, 1971": David Hume Kennerly's photo of an ambulance going by a cross on the grave of a dead South Vietnamese soldier on Highway 13, South Vietnam. (David Hume Kennnerly / Annenberg Space for Photography)
Northern Ireland, The Bogside, Londonderry 1971 Don McCullin
