In this article I make a visual content analysis on 1306 news photos from the New York Times and the Washington Post during the Iraqi war, and then make a further analysis on a set of photos by semiotic approach.

• 本文首先对《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》在伊拉克战争期间的1306张新闻照片进行了视觉的内容分析，然后选取了一组典型的照片进行了符号学的分析。