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Originally Posted by Skybird
A germannews article yesterday said that historians found 85-90% of all photos from battle and war in WWIwere bstaged fakes and showed no real battles, even if the scenes depicted were epic, but were taken during manouvers, or were put on stage. Reasons: propaganda, and to show a pictures of a clean war. How little man have changed. They said that they are in a process to re-assess the historic value of huge quantities of film and picture material from that time.
Now imagine what Philip K. Dick would have made of it. That it even did not happen!?
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How do you stage ripped apart corpses? But you are certainly right and I read similiar articles before. Nevertheless, even staged pics are part of the time and thus have a high value in getting a feel for the period and the thinking prevelent during that.
What bothers me much more then discussions about staged pics is that the concept of war itself and its glorification still goes on in most parts of the world, uneffected by the simple banalities of suffering, crippling and death. Jihads, crusades, "just" wars....it's a humilation of men's dignity.