The First World War : unseen glass plate photographs of the Western front / Carl De Keyzer, David Van Reybrouck ; with a preface by Geoff Dyer ; translations by Brian Doyle.
A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras used at the time, the look of the Great War has tra...
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Geoff Dyer
- Introduction: Such thick silence / David Van Reybrouck
- A classical aesthetic. Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud ; Isidore Aubert
- Playing with color. Paul Castelnau, Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, Albert Samama-Chikli ; Léon Gimpel: the kids' war
- Coroners of their time. Maurice and Robert Antony ; Isidore Aubert, Paul Castelnau, Fernand Cuville
- Confusion and destruction. Arthur Brusselle ; Albert Moreau
- A disquieting silence. The German collection ; The Vottem memorial portraits.