Word: would
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early decades, photography was best suited not to events but to the rubble and corpses they left in their wake. The first generations to devote themselves to the camera found amid those ruins the very issues that would preoccupy documentary photographers to this...
...years of fighting to come, Brady would field his own small army of camera reporters. They included Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. O'Sullivan and George N. Barnard, who would become some of the best-known photographers of the century. (All three eventually left Brady's employ in a huff over his practice of attaching his own name to their work.) Their pictures gave war a new face, stark and squalid, the face of the openmouthed dead on the fields of Gettysburg...
...exposed to history in the name of publishing, only a handful of images have themselves become part of history. These form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Every educated person should be familiar with them, just as he or she would know the great achievements of painting, sculpture or music. And every person, educated or not, should be moved by these journalistic images, just as he or she would be by the masterpieces...
...soul -- that, as he told a friend "every body in its natural state is made up of a series of ghostly images superimposed in layers to infinity, wrapped in infinitesimal films." Each time a photograph was made, he believed, another thin layer of the subject's being would be stripped off to become not life as before but a membrane of memory in a sort of translucent antiworld...
...show is that a few moments earlier the Viet Cong had slaughtered the family of Loan's best friend in a house just up the road. All this occurred during the Tet offensive, a state of general mayhem all over South Viet Nam. The Communists in similar circumstances would not have had qualms about summary execution...