Margaret Bourke-White
She photographed during many wars across the world, but she is most well known for her photographs that were taken inside the concentration camp in Germany as the American troops liberated the prisoners. Her photographs appeared in Life magazine in may 1945.
Strikingly powerful and moving images they show the atrocieties that the prisoners have suffered though and the reaction of German civilians who lived local to the camp.
Bourke-White shows the terrified faces of prisoners lined up behind the barbed wire that is fencing them in, the simple inclusion of the wire creates negative connotations of being trapped behind it and unable to escape.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Peace at last : V-J day, times square,August 14, 1945
New York, Penn Station. 1944
This photograph captures a moment between a couple who are saying goodbye, many images taken during the war show this same moment but different couples, in many of which the soldiers did not return home.
In the background of the image there are also other woman who have gathered to say goodbye to their loved ones, the way the background has been filled creates a connotation that the whole station is filled with goodbyes and loved ones, it is an image many of the people could relate too as they were also watching their loved ones depart for war.
Bernard Hoffma
A woman readjusting her goggles before she starts working, this image shows a different side to the war; women became workers because the men had been sent to war.
During the war the factories and farmlands still needed people to work on them so the women were filling these roles. Before this women had had gender specific jobs such as shop work or tailoring or had become stay at home wives and mothers.
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