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The First World War (Hardcover)
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The First World War (Hardcover)
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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. Scanned from the original plates,
with scratches and other flaws expertly removed, these oversized
reproductions offer a wealth of unusual moments, including scenes
of men in training, pictures of African colonial troops on the
Western front, landscapes of astonishing destruction, and
postmortem portraits of Belgian soldiers killed in action. Readers
previously familiar with only black-and-white or sepia-toned prints
of the hostilities will be riveted by the book's many authentic
color photographs, products of the early autochrome method. From
children playing war games to a wrenching deathbed visit, these
images are extraordinary not only for their subject matter, but
also for the wide range of emotions they evoke. Accompanied by a
preface from celebrated writer Geoff Dyer and an essay by historian
David Van Reybrouck, the photographs here serve both as remarkable
witnesses to the everyday life of warfare and as dramatic works of
art in their own right. These images, taken by some of the
conflict's most gifted photographers, will radically change how we
visualize the First World War.
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