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The Last Blog The pictures cover the trip to and in Venice. Basically, there are three kinds, snaps for clarification, "National Geographic" for showing the city, and Fun for fun Enjoy Studying the geopgraphy to get ready to move around. San Marco Square is on the screen We left at 9 at night to take the ferry to the mainland. From the mainland, we took an overnight ferry to Bari in Italy. It was big. Seven truck lanes wide with two full decks of vehicles. You can see Maria and Antonis the next morning getting things back into the car for the drive to Rome. Going through the original wall from Roman times around the core of the city. The plan was to stay overnight and I would go on by train to Venice the next day. They had planned to stay in Rome to leave the car for registration renewal and repair. From the train station in Venice, I took the "Vaporetto". That is Italian for Steamboat and remains the name from the old time when they we...
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WAR AND PHOTOGRAPHY From the Lecture You may not want to read this, and that is fine I did a Keynote/Powerpoint presentation covering the subject of War and Photography with three points of focus 1. The history of advances in photographic technology. 2. The impact of war photography on the human perception of war 3. The control of war photography by governments and the media It was important to me to establish my belief that in general students in Europe  1. Live close to the hotspots of conflict today 2. For the most part, are more cosmopolitan. I have chosen a few slides from the 238 to give a sense of what I said I believe we all have seen so much of war imagery that I have to start with unknown images that can show the power of viewing In 1916 over 10,000 adults and children  gathered to witness the lynching of a young black man. He was hung by a chain over a fire and slowly burned to death I want to establish the power o...
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