Victorians and Edwardians at War e-bog
74,45 DKK
(inkl. moms 93,06 DKK)
By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s, the idea that 'the camera cannot lie' was already firmly embedded in the Victorian psyche. 'Truthful' in a way the work of the war artist could never be, despite the initially long exposures and cumbersome equipment, cameras have been used to document war ever since the celebrated photographs of Roger Fenton in the Crimea. T...
E-bog
74,45 DKK
Forlag
Shire Publications
Udgivet
20 september 2012
Længde
112 sider
Genrer
1DBK
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780747812630
By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s, the idea that 'the camera cannot lie' was already firmly embedded in the Victorian psyche. 'Truthful' in a way the work of the war artist could never be, despite the initially long exposures and cumbersome equipment, cameras have been used to document war ever since the celebrated photographs of Roger Fenton in the Crimea. Through a rich selection of images many of them never before published this book tells the story of the photographers who chronicled Britain's Victorian and Edwardian wars and those who fought in them.