War Photographer Flashcards
All 9 cards in this deck
Who wrote ‘War Photographer’?
Carol Ann Duffy, in Standing Female Nude (1985).
Whose friendship inspired ‘War Photographer’?
War photographers Don McCullin and Philip Jones Griffiths.
What is the form of ‘War Photographer’?
Four six-line stanzas, rhyming ABBCDD.
Who is the subject of ‘War Photographer’, and where is he?
A photographer developing his films in his darkroom in England.
Which phrase describes the rolls of film in the darkroom in ‘War Photographer’?
“spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
In ‘War Photographer’, what is the darkroom compared to?
A church, with the photographer as a priest.
Which Bible quotation ends the first stanza of ‘War Photographer’?
“All flesh is grass”, from the Book of Isaiah.
Which three war zones are listed in stanza 1 of ‘War Photographer’?
Belfast, Beirut and Phnom Penh.
What are the main themes of ‘War Photographer’?
The suffering of war, and the public’s indifference to it.