Bibliograph

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

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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

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The First World War

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

917367336

Responsibility statement

Carl De Keyzer, David Van Reybrouck ; with a preface by Geoff Dyer ; translations by Brian Doyle

Sub title

unseen glass plate photographs of the Western front

Summary

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 traditionally been grainy, blurred, and monochrome until now. The First World War presents a startlingly different perspective, one based on rare glass plate photographs, that reveals the war with previously unseen, even uncanny, clarity

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

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WW II

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