Capture the Moment: On the uses and misuses of photojournalism. “This may be a useful time to reconsider our relationship to
photojournalism. For it is a relationship that is increasingly disturbed
and yet absolutely key to our understanding of, and bewilderment
about, the world outside our selves (and possibly, therefore, about our
inner selves as well). In our image-glutted culture, our connection to
photographs—and especially to those that record atrocities, wars,
and other manmade disasters—resembles a bad but inescapable
marriage in which one unhappy partner distrusts yet depends upon
the other. (As in so many unhappy marriages, there is a convenient
third party—in this case, the exploitative photojournalist—to blame.)” Boston Review
