Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq

See firsthand how war photography is used to sway public opinion.

In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick—up truck which may have had a weapon attached to its flatbed. This was a lethal form of gesture politics: to send a £9—million bomber from Cyprus to Iraq and back, burning £35,000 an hour in fuel, to launch a smart missile costing £100,000 to destroy a truck or, rather, to create a video that shows it being destroyed. Some lives are...