Summary of "The Boston Photographs" Summary and Response Paper. This essay is about "The Boston Photographs" by Nora Ephron

Summary of "The Boston Photographs" <Tab/>In "The Boston Photographs," writer Nora Ephron writes about three very controversial pictures taken of a rescue attempt that failed. The photographs were taken by Stanley Forman of the Boston Herald American. He was using a motor driven camera, which allowed him to take three frames per second. The first shot showed a fireman that was rescuing a woman and a child. The next picture …

…she feels the way she does. She describes how it's irrelevant as to where it happened, why it happened, or who it happened to, but that it did happen. In the end, she concludes very nicely by saying the pictures deserved to be printed because they were "great pictures, breathtaking pictures of something that happened. That they disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism."