War Photographer Flashcards
“Spools of suffering”
‘Spools’ refer to the vast number of images that’s there’s many spools of them and almost never ending. ‘Suffering’ refers to how horrible these pictures are and what the depict.
“The only light is red”
Red light has connotations of red light in church, suggesting the presence of Christ and also blood.
“Softly glows”
Refers to the light and suggests this is his sanctuary and home.
“Ordered rows”
Rows of soldiers ordered to their death. Cemetery.
“Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass”
List, short sentences- suggest quantity and variety of places he’s been and seen suffering. The image of the grass suggests how fragile life is.
“Hands which did not tremble them”
He has PTSD
“Home again to ordinary pain”
Used to contrast that pain in the places he was was extreme.
“Fields which don’t explode”
Contrasted in England to the places he were where fields were covered in mines.
“Simple weather… nightmare hear”
Contrast between the places and the weather and impact they have.
“Half formed ghost”
Person in the photo is on their way to death.
“A hundred agonies in black and white from which his editor will pick out 5 or 6”
All the terrible things he has seen and only few are shown. ‘Agonies’ describes the severity of pain.
“eyeballs prick”
He sheds a few tears, we the readers are desensitised to such kinds of images.
