Culture August 19, 2013

Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images is a collection of what art historian and curator Julian Stallabrass describes as “loosely associated essays and interviews” on political images and the politics of image-making during war, with a focus on the recent war in Iraq. While photography has played a role in the portrayal of large-scale conflict since World War I, Iraq was the first war of the digital age. Journalism has always placed a premium on timeliness, but with digital photography, we no longer had to wait for film to be delivered or developed. As photojournalist