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War Photographer Flashcards

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War photographer

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Anonymous, ambiguity, no recognition

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Dark room

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Isolated

Connotations of negativity and foreboding

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Finally

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He is relieved to be away from the chaos that it is assumed he returned from

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Spoools of suffering

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Sibilance

Word choice of suffering demonstrates not only the content of the film but also the fact that the images may still be developing in his mind

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Ordered rows

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Precise and professional

Imagery suggests graves/war dead

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Glows

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Assonance

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Priest

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Vocation linked to helping those who suffer

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A priest preparing to intone a mass

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The photographer takes it just pride in his work but approaches it with a reverence. Almost ritualistic

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All flesh is grass

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Rhyme

Find out meaning

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He has a job to do

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Trying To focus and snap out of it

Changes tone - factual

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11
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Solutions

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Word choice

Literally- liquid used to develop photos

Metaphorically- solve problem of war

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His hands which did not tremble then

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Contrast of war zone and home

Reality sinks in - fear/horror

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Rural England

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Contrasts safe and peace of rural England to violence and noise if the battlefield

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Running children

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Corrupted and shocking

Emphasises innocence

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Something is happening

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Short, declarative sentence

Literally- something happening to photos

Metaphorically- in his mind he is seeing and reliving

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16
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Stranger’s

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Word choice

Shows distance

Desensitised as it is an unknown person

17
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features faintly start to twist before his eyes

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Distorted images

Literally - partly developed

Connotations of pain, agony and disfigurement

18
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half formed

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Disfigured person appearing in photo

Triggers thought

19
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Ghost

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Man in the photo is dead

He is haunted by his ghosts of the past

20
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He sought approval

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Wants to connect with people around him and make them understand he has to do this

He needs recognition to do his job

Feels guilty for taking photos

21
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Without words

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Shocked

Language barrier

22
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Someone must

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Take photos, professional

Has to be done

23
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Foreign dust

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Connotations of ashes

24
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A hundred agonies

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Sheer mass of distressing pictures

25
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Black and white

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Literally - monochrome image

Metaphorically - good and evil

26
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Readers eyeballs prick with tears

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Word choice of prick shows a small emotional response

Quick short snappy word

27
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Tears between bath and pre lunch beers

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Internal rhyme suggests entertainment of newspaper in contrast with the horror of the Photo

28
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They do not care

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This reaction contrasts with the long lasting effect on the photographer

Attack on cynicism and apathy of people who don’t care in this country

Damning Final Words

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