Boston Photographs By Nora Ephron Analysis

The “Boston Photographs” by Nora Ephron is a series of photographs that were captured in Boston when an apartment fire took the life of a young mother. A photographer named Stanley Forman captured theses frames of a rescue ladder falling from the fire escape, and the mother grasping for the fireman while the baby started falling from the edge. The essay “From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America’s Wars” by Bruce Franklin is describing the technological advancements that evolved throughout America’s wars and the media’s presentation of these wars to the public. Throughout this essay I am going to reflect on these essays and the thought that I have about them. In “Boston Photographs” the author talks about photojournalism and how the author believes that pictures speak louder than words. For editors they believed that these photos brought awareness to poverty and
I connect with this because I believe that the photos that were captured do invade the privacy of death. I believe that the photographer that took these photos just did it to be a cheap sensationalist, and was just trying to create a reaction on readers because of how rare such photos actually are. In addition, these photographs that were taken display an inappropriate subject that provides no purpose but to show an individuals last moment of their life.
Moreover, the connection that I made with the essay by Franklin is that photography plays an important role in warfare because it allows people to view how war really is, and the impact that it has on the public. War is brutal, repulsive, and violent and that is just what war photography depicts. I connect with this essay because unlike the death of an individual photography of war does provide a purpose. It provides a purpose by allowing individuals to picture war as a mean to understand it and even avoid