Viewpoint Tim Dawson
Oct 01, 2019
2 minutes
Photojournalism succeeds because of its apparent veracity. We know images can be ‘Photoshopped' but our expectation is that those using cameras as documentary tools resist manipulation beyond dodging, burning, and cropping.
However, a drip, drip, drip of revelations about hitherto iconic images is steadily unsettling long-standing expectations.
Robert Capa's shots of the D-Day landings on Omaha beach standcover within days of the invasion and continue to shape our understanding of that battle. Steven Spielberg's 1998 D-Day epic, , owes much to Capa's imagery.
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