Communication Through Pictures Photographers often communicate through their pictures. Although the camera lens views the world impartially, the photographer constantly judges, deciding what to photograph and how to photograph it. (“Art” Encarta). The Civil War was the first time that photographers changed the way we looked at something, including war. Although the photograph was invented twenty-two years earlier, that didn’t discourage some photographers of the time from risking their lives in the battle fields and trenches of the Civil War (Sears 1-3). While the photographers of the Civil War followed as much