Do Images Change the World - Or Do They Change Us?

Photo by Marc Riboud

Imagine a photographic assignment to show hard and soft texture, or life and death, or metaphor, or?

This image works powerfully for me because it is both artistically enticing and loaded with powerful information.


I wonder how much seeing images like this as a boy in the 1960s formed my pacifist outlook.

Image Source: http://worldtodiscover.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/how-pictures-changed-the-world/