War Photographer Flashcards
Darkroom
Red
Colour imagery shows blood, death and danger of war
Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
Sibilance shows that war and suffering is on going link to Adam and Eve betrayal
Reflects the structure and suggestions graves bodies
Softly glows
Contrast to guns and bombs in war
A priest preparing to intone a mass
Similie shows his devotion to his work
Religious imagery
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh
Tricolon shows places in conflict
all flesh is grass
Metaphor
Biblical reference from Isaiah 40:6 shows shortness of life, we’re Burried in the ground and decay into grass
He has a job to do
Justifying doing it by saying it’s his job, reminding himself that his actions have a purpose
Solutions slop
Slop implies carelessness
Ambiguous word- referring to the literal chemicals forming the photographs and metaphorically war
Sibilance
Which did not tremble then, but seem to now
Did not trouble them because he was desensitised and hardened to it with the adrenaline when you see the pictures afterwards he realises how bad it was
Rural England
Short sentance contrast suggested idyllic life away from war
Ordinary pain
Oxymoron showing the lack of severity of our lives
To fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat
Metaphor
Shows contrast between batefoot children running in the grass for fun / those running from war- the end of innocence and possibly life.
Use children to make the reader sympathise with them
Strangers features
Ambiguous: literally developing photo, figuritvley the person in pain
A half formed ghost
Image on the photo literally
Metaphor- death
Foreign dust
Highlights that it’s not happening here and doesn’t effect us
