The Photographs of Manuel Bromberg

Fascinating. It's always great to be able to capture stories, life and events from many sides and not just one person's point of view.

Great story, well-told. Any chance that the photos will be published anytime soon?

Great job Adam.

Glad to see this on DO. The humanity in Bromberg's photos is apparent. Too many art school hippies (myself included) grow up believing the military consists of either blind, brainwashed drones or insane officers. It's just not true. "Soldiers" can be compassionate, too (myself included). Sometimes to a fault.

Will try harder to "do it like Goya." Ha!

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What an unusual morning. I didn't expect anything about any war to appear on DO. I must release you from the design cage and the limits, I've imposed, because I am not a designer. Normandy is the most emotional day of the year for me. These photos bring tears. My father was at Normandy, the Pacific theatre, Sicily, northern African, and finally Japan. In his later years, we ended up spending almost everyday together, after my almost 20 year absence from home. We talked. We covered the waterfront. Everything, I wanted to know, he slowly told me. He never understood why the US government allowed so many US military in so soon after the bombs. He gave me his navy diary, filled with love letters to my mother, who waited for him. She began a scrapbook, with as much as she was allowed to have. Four years later my father returned to CT. his birthplace. They began their life together. And, my father died one year and a day after my mother. What I have is all the scrapbooks, pictures, letters. I have massacred this post. Kindly, slice it for me. Many thanks for a surprise, initially sad, but very exciting in that I'm beginning to grasp the latitude of DO. I will learn to be short. I do know I can expect anything!

Thanks, Gayle Dallas Blackston

Great Pictures! We all need to respect the troops for the bravery and courage they have shown!

Wow those are prolific.

Why is it that the most horrendous historical events make for beautiful photography? Holocaust, 9—11, natural disasters, etc.

Why is it that the most horrendous historical events make for beautiful photography? Holocaust, 9—11, natural disasters, etc.

because these events make human lives asymmetrical. While Hollywood standards of facial beauty are supposedly set on symmetry, we all know that the explorers (photographers who venture into such fields) base their photography on bold, interesting angles that aren't perfectly balanced.

thanks for the response Mr Blank. I have to respectfully disagree. I think the answer is more primitive. When people are driving and see a horrible accident on the side of the road they slow down to stare. I do not believe them staring has anything to do with angles or symmetry.

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see i usually dont stare at those accidents. i just keep on with where i am hesded. i once got in a fender bender and twoi other cars stppped to stare and ended up in the worse accidents than mine. i may be add when im reading and clicking and writing, but not about gawking at horror.

my exhusband however would look at all those kind of things (and blondes, too.)

I just finished Ken Burns' Civil War doc set. Absolutely brilliant. But at times—I have to admit—I did feel i was 'gawking at horror'.

"my exhusband however would look at all those kind of things (and blondes, too.)"

Are you talking about the accident scenario or the cheap porn site posted above?

the accident. the blondes were in real life and always made him turn his head. i am dark haired, slightly grey, was a blonde for my first two years of life before my actual hair pigmentation took hold. never had any yearning to be blond and cannot understand the yearning or the desire to look at such either especially if it is bleached straw.

There is a mural in the Greybull, WY post office by Manuel Bromberg. I was researching his work and found this article. Thank you, Mr. Levy, for your efforts to mine Mr. Bromberg's life work. The photos are haunting and the article is appreciated.

I suppose I'm in the minority here. I didn't find these images especially compelling. Interesting yes; historically significant, yes.
But not gripping.

I think the addition of the photographer's captions and/or notes would add an important perspective to these images.

very interesting post. Thanks a lot for sharing it.