2010.54.932
(38.10 cm HIGH x 52.07 cm WIDE)
Poster has a background image of a Vietnamese man pointing a gun at the head of another man. The image is in yellow and black and is pixelated and not clear. Over the man pointing the gun is a television making the man holding the gun in black and white and clear. The poster has "If Vietnam were now what would you see?" printed in yellow on black. This image is an artistic treatment of the famous Viet Nam war photograph by Eddie Adams in which police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shot a Vietcong operative. The photo was very controversial and supported a critical view of Vietnamese allies by the American public.The subject of the poster was the nature of photojournalism coverage in subsequent wars, especially the censorial issues of "embedded" journalists and restrictive government photograph regulations during the Iraq and Afghan War campaigns. [LMC]
