War Photographer Flashcards
Memory
“He remembers the cries of this man’s wife”
“beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now”
Growing up / transition / change
“beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now”
Painful experiences / suffering
“spools of suffering”
“A hundred agonies in black and white”
“a half-formed ghost”
“blood stained into foreign dust”
The senses
“He remembers the cries of this man’s wife”
“reader’s eyeballs prick with tears”
Contrast
“Home again to ordinary pain”
“A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out five or six”
“Rural England”
Imagery
“spools of suffering”
“a half-formed ghost”
Character
“finally alone”
“beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now”
Setting
“dark room”
“he stares impassively at where he earns his living”
“fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat”
“The only light was red and softly glows”
