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This was the first work to show how the Inca (Inka) Empire and its predecessor societies used the quipu for mathematical and accounting records in the decimal system. The archaeologist Gary Urton noted in his 2003 book Signs of the Inka Khipu that he estimated "from my own studies and from the published works of other scholars that there are ...
One photo shows one of the stakes at which bodies were burned when the crematoria could not manage to burn all the bodies. The bodies in the foreground are waiting to be thrown into the fire. Another picture shows one of the places in the forest where people undress before 'showering'—as they were told—and then go to the gas-chambers.
Bloody Saturday, by H. S. Wong. Bloody Saturday (Chinese: 血腥的星期六; pinyin: Xuèxīng de Xīngqíliù) is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The proliferation of the photographic images allowed the public to be well informed in the discourses of war. The advent of mass-reproduced images of war were not only used to inform the public but they served as imprints of the time and as historical recordings. [34] Mass-produced images did have consequences.
These images were massively reproduced and disseminated in order to contribute to raise support for the U.S. involvement in World War II. [ citation needed ] Thus, there can be troubling affinities between Allied politically-engaged art and fascist and totalitarian art when in both cases art and artists are used to create “persuasive images ...
The photographs the unit produced were used as the basis for at least two contemporary books: Power In the Pacific – compiled by Steichen to accompany an exhibition by the same title at the Museum of Modern Art [4] The Blue Ghost – a record of Steichen's November 1943 tour on board the USS Lexington. [5]
Some photographs were taken by the camp prisoners themselves, for example by Wilhelm Brasse [11] or Francisco Boix, working as aides for their Nazi overseers. [5] There were also photographs taken in the ghettos by their Jewish inhabitants, some with official permission, some in secrecy as an act of defiance and for evidence purposes. [12]
Was primarily used as a naval gun, however, also saw use as coastal defence and fortification 8-inch gun M1888: 203 mm (8 in) Coastal defence and fortification United States: Saw little service in the war, was primarily used in World War I: 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun: 203 mm (8 in) Railway gun United States: Was a variation of the 8-inch M1888