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The First World War
Carl de Keyzer
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Description for The First World War
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 336 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2042.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
2051g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226284286
SKU
V9780226284286
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Ref
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About Carl de Keyzer
Carl De Keyzer is an acclaimed documentary photographer, photojournalist, and photography teacher. A member of Magnum Photos since 1994, he has published his work in multiple books, including, most recently, Oogspanning: Fotografie Carl De Keyzer 1981-1984. He resides in Ghent, Belgium. David Van Reybrouck is a historian and writer based in Brussels, Belgium.
Reviews for The First World War
The book is a collection of previously unseen and restored WWI photographs of lesser-seen photo subjects, such as training, African colonial troops and postmortem portraits of Belgian soldiers.
Jeremy Mikula Printers Row Journal/Chicago Tribune The book is a collection of previously unseen and restored WWI photographs of lesser-seen photo subjects, such as training, African colonial ... Read more
Jeremy Mikula Printers Row Journal/Chicago Tribune The book is a collection of previously unseen and restored WWI photographs of lesser-seen photo subjects, such as training, African colonial ... Read more