War photography

War photography documents armed conflict, its participants, and its effects through photographs. It encompasses images made on battlefields and those showing war’s consequences away from combat.

Combat photographer: A photographer who makes images in or near active military operations. Combat photographers work under the access, danger, and timing constraints that define battlefield images.
Roger Fenton: A British photographer whose 1855 images of the Crimean War were among the earliest extensive war photographs. His staged and carefully composed scenes expose the limits of early battlefield documentation.
Public opinion: The distribution of attitudes and judgments held by a population. Graphic and widely circulated images can shape how people judge a war and its conduct.
War art: Art made about warfare, including painting, sculpture, and other forms of visual expression. Unlike photography, war art can reconstruct scenes without claiming direct optical recording.
Photojournalism: Journalism that uses photographs to report and interpret current events. War photography is a specialized form of photojournalism shaped by armed conflict.
Mathew Brady: An American photographer and publisher associated with documenting the U.S. Civil War. His studio and field teams helped establish photography as a record of a modern war.
Collective memory: Shared representations of the past maintained by a group or society. Repeated publication turns selected photographs into enduring visual memories of conflict.
War film: A motion-picture genre depicting armed conflict and its participants or consequences. Film can stage and sequence events, whereas still war photographs freeze particular moments.
Censorship: The suppression or control of information, expression, or images by an authority. Military and government restrictions can determine which conflict images reach the public.
Napalm Girl: A 1972 photograph by Nick Ut showing children fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam War. Its publication made civilian suffering central to public discussion of the conflict.

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