Is that the famous back of a Nikon, I presume, that stopped a bullet doing fatal damage to the owner? Yes it is proof that a handful of "war" photographers ( in terms of the then photographing population) put themselves in danger and because they were few in number we then got to know their stories. However with the advent of i phones with their ever improving ability to both take stills and video, everyone can be potentially a "war" photographer. So I suspect many more are now in that category, be it only in one specific area of their theatre of war and be it only for a few minutes, hours or days while the action takes place in their area. What they collectively produce if it is transmitted as inevitably it is, can become a more all round picture of what is going on than a handful of professional war photographers like Don could ever have achieved
So surely it is not that no-one wants his kind of pictures anymore but that even equipped with a digital camera and the equipment to transmit his pictures instantly he becomes only one of many more war photographers who may or may not get his pictures seen. In today's world a picture of street fighting in Nicosia such as Don captured in the early 1960s would be available to 100s of would- be war photographers who taken as a whole may produce a bigger picture of what is going on and in real time than Don could ever in the early 60s have hoped to produce.
An i phone will never "stop a bullet" but I'd have thought that there is a good chance by now or very soon in the future that there will be a great number of dead war photographers with i phones of whom the general public will be none the wiser about their exploits because none of them will ever be known to other than their immediate family
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