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A photo shot during the Karabakh war was presented at the exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum.

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath presents 255 photographers from around the globe who have covered conflicts over the last 166 years.

Among the images is a color photograph by Alexandra Avakian from 1992 showing a woman and a child, the New York Times reported. .

The title explains: “L. G. was tortured and raped in front of her 4-year-old son by Azerbaijani troops before Armenian soldiers rescued her, Nagorno-Karabakh.”

The exhibition explores the experience of war with an unprecedented collection of 400 photographic prints, books, magazines, albums, and camera equipment, bringing together iconic and unknown images taken by members of the military, commercial portraitists, journalists, amateurs, artists, and numerous Pulitzer Prize–winning photographers, says the message on the museum’s website.

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