One event shown in the movie was World War II. Photographers were specially commissioned to go along to the war and take pictures for newspapers and such back in the states, to let people know how the war was going and to glorify American troops. I think that the pictures from here are really dramatic and give you a small sense of how horrible war could be.
Another event that they talked about was when the Hindenburg exploded. One person happened to get a few chance shots of it, and that picture made the event real, otherwise no one would've believed it and it wouldn't be "news". I think that the pictures taken of this event are cool because there's only three of them and they're very good quality, considering how fast the photographer had to load and reload the camera in the short amount of time.
If I could document one event in history through pictures, it would probably be the Revolutionary War, because it's my favorite period in history and it had a lot of action going on then. Plus, it would show how our nation came to be, what our founding fathers and american heroes really looked like.
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