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Jasem Behbehani: Apocalyptic Images |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: A.D. Coleman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,554 Words, 9,538 Characters |
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History, as any historian will tell you, is not what actually happened at any given time; history is what the future constructs from the raw material of how those events were reported and interpreted. Instantaneous journalistic coverage helped shape the immediate development of events during the Persian Gulf war. At the same time, restrictions on press coverage during that heated conflict set precedents for government control of international conflicts--including photojournalism--that will reverberate for years.
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Whatever their disagreements, due to the exigencies of war Saddam Hussein and President Bush clearly agreed that news was to be managed. The Iraqi despot's strictures were more severe than the U.S. military's, and exercised in more peremptory and brutal ...
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... view of outside events--particularly events in which we are as deeply embroiled as we were in the Gulf War--is especially valuable, and should be gratefully welcomed. Perhaps this show will lead to a demand for exhibitions and publications of more work by U.S. and foreign photojournalists that can serve to fill in the many gaps in what we have been shown and told so far about Desert Storm. vbcrlf
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