Moments in history

“Moments in history” shows how photography can be used to capture life events and photograph the endless moment. As photography is used in many different ways for different purposes, it is a valuable thing to use photography as a time machine, which can take you back to memories. Moments in history such as the war, buildings, places, and important life events could be taken to be remembered later on in the centuries. Photographs are on of the most important things why we have history, which can be remembered and known. The chapter of the book looks at how photography can be used not to please the viewer and show them eye-pleasing images but to capture images from the history which are real, natural and also educational which teaches the viewer the history.

These set of three images was taken by Sophie Ristelhueber, Iraq, 2001.

“Sophie Ristelhueber has described her experiences in Iraq in 2000 and 2001 as ‘a striking shortcut of thousands of years: from the oldest civilizations who had lain on this land to those of the first Gulf War, while the American F-16s were flying over our heads on surveillance missions...” (Sophie Ristelhueber. Photography as contemporary art, chapter 6).  This is how Ristelhueber expressed her experience from her work.

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Reference: Sophie Ristelhueber. Photography as contemporary art, chapter 6