On view for another month at the Brooklyn Museum, WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath is an amazingly effective show. It groups some 400 images taken over the last 166 years thematically — from training to deployment to combat, injuries, death, and the 1000-mile stare of returning troops. By organizing the show this way, it drives home the constants of war. The equipment and circumstances change, the realities of sending people into combat doesn’t. There are acts of bravery, tenacity, loyalty and love on the battlefield, in hospital tents, by gravestones. There is also unspeakable brutality, suffering, and devastation both individual and collective, military and civilian.
This was our take on it. If you have seen the show in Brooklyn or any of its previous venues (Museum Fine Arts, Houston; Corcoran, Washington, DC; Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles), please share your thoughts.
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