‘War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’

“Highway 13, 1971”: David Hume Kennerly’s photo of an ambulance going by a cross on the grave of a dead South Vietnamese soldier on Highway 13, South Vietnam.  (David Hume Kennnerly / Annenberg Space for Photography)

Members of the media preview some 170 images of war on exhibit.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A woman looks at Larry Burrows’ iconic Vietnam War photograph, “Reaching Out.”   (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A museum staffer walks past a wall of photographs focusing on the aftermath of armed conflict.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A museum staffer clears away chairs as an Iraq War photograph by Ashley Gilbertson is projected on a screen.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Photos and drawing depitcting armed conflict and created by George Gittoes and the late Dan Eldon are displayed beside a copy of Life magazine with a photo of an Allied soldier about to be beheaded by his Japanese Imperial Army executioner.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)