War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places. Photographers who participate in this genre may find themselves placed in harm's way, and are sometimes killed trying to get their pictures out of the war arena.
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And. Dubchak crop.jpg
And. Dubchak crop
Bodies on the battlefield at antietam.jpg
Photograph of the field at Antietam, American Civil War. Confederate dead by a fence at the Hagerst...
Captured Sikh guns parked in Ambala cantonment in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, by John McCosh, circa April 1849.jpg
Captured Sikh guns of the Sikh Empire parked in Ambala cantonment in the aftermath of the Second Ang...
Confederate Dead at Devil's Den Gettysburg.jpg
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863.
Felice Beato.jpg
Felice Beato unknown photographer (possibly a self-portrait)
General Wool and staff in the Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico, taken by an unknown photographer during the Mexican-American war, ca.1847.jpg
General Wool and staff in the Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico, taken by an unknown photographer during ...
Joe Rosenthal, 1990.jpg
Joe Rosenthal, 1990
RobertCapabyGerdaTaro.jpg
Photographer Robert Capa during the Spanish civil war, May 1937. Photo by Gerda Taro.
Roger Fenton - L'Entente cordiale - Google Art Project.jpg
USS New Ironsides in action.jpg
USS New Ironsides and five monitor-class warships are in action against Fort Sumter and Fort Moultri...
Vimy Ridge.jpg
Official en:war photo of en:Vimy Ridge in en:1917.
Photographer: Jack Turner
Source. Digital Colle...
Alexander Gardner by James Gardner - 1863.jpg
Alexander Gardner, American Civil War photographer. Albumen silver print,
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Felice Beato - Interior of the Angle of Taku North Fort Immediately After Its Capture by Storm - Google Art Project.jpg
New Ironsides and monitor class ironclads engaging Fort Moultrie.jpg
New Ironsides and monitor class ironclads engaging Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, SC. September 8...
Roger Fenton by the Photographic Society Club, 1856.jpg
Photograph of Roger Fenton. Albumen print. From "Rules of the Photographic Society Club with Portrai...
The Indian Mutiny 1857-1859 Q69824.jpg
The Indian Mutiny 1857-1859
Aftermath of the Siege of Lucknow. Skeletal human remains lie among the ...
The Terror of War.jpg
"The Terror of War", photograph showing Phan Thi Kim Phuc running down a road near Trảng Bàng, Vietn...
Valley of the shadow of death.jpg
"The valley of the shadow of death" Crimean War photograph. Dirt road in ravine scattered with canno...