Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France Pichel Beatriz
Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France Pichel Beatriz Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of…
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Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France Pichel Beatriz
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Picturing the Western Front argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians' war experiences. Either classified in military archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in personal albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war.
Photography mattered because it enabled combatants and civilians to record events, establish or reinforce bonds with one another, represent bodies, place people and events in imaginative geographies and making things visible, while making others, such as suicide, invisible. Doing photography (taking pictures, posing for them, exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them) allowed combatants and civilians to make sense of what they were living through. Photographic
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