during the 1970s, Martha was one of the artist-scholars who reshaped photographic studies while creating an influential new social-documentary photography, Her photomontage series created a visual and intellectual clash between images from the Vietnam conflict taken from newspaper and magazine. Her picture-war brought elements of the visual spectacle of modern life into close proximity. Martha's point was not simply to make an anti-war protest, but also to comment on the homogenization of mass-media imagery in the public imagination