Pdf / English / 1974 / 159 pages / 21.6 MB

50 years of war photographs from the nineteenth century

97 sepia photographs Photojournalism on the battlefield began almost immediately upon the invention of the camera. Working with cumbersome and unreliable equipment, the first war photographers recorded, to extraordinary effect and free from the bias of drawn and written accounts, realities of combat, of camp life, the march, and the besieged town. These photographic documents were a revelation to a newspaper audience
accustomed to the adventury-story viewpoint of the sketch-pad artists who had previously accompanied war correspondents.