From one piece Looking at War (The New Yorker) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Images shown on television are, by definition, images of which, sooner or later, one tires. What looks like callousness has its origin in the instability of attention that television is organized to arouse and to satiate, by its surfeit of images.
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The problem is not that people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs. This remembering through photographs eclipses other forms of understanding—and remembering.
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Disgust and pity at war pictures should not distract from asking whose cruelties and deaths are not being shownTheir words
And the disgust and pity that pictures like Hicks’s inspire should not distract from asking what pictures, whose cruelties, whose deaths you are not being shown.
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A photograph is never simply transparent: to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to excludeTheir words
But the photographic image, even to the extent that it is a trace (not a construction made out of disparate photographic traces), cannot be simply a transparency of something that happened. It is always the image that someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.