Research Catalog

Title

Shooting range : photography & the Great War / Inge Henneman, ed. ; with Maureen Magerman, Lyne Viskens, Tamar Cachet and Rein Deslé ; with contributions by Gita Deneckere, Bruno de Wever and Johan Pas.

Publication

Antwerp, Belgium : FoMu, [2014?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Henneman, Inge, 1963-
• Magerman, Maureen.
• Viskens, Lyne.
• Cachet, Tamar.
• Deslé, Rein.
• Deneckere, Gita, 1964-
• Wever, Bruno de.
• Pas, Johan.
• Museum voor Fotografie (Antwerp, Belgium)

Description

219 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm

Summary

"The First World War began on July 28, 1914, 100 years ago, and lasted until November 11, 1918. From the start, photography and film played decisive roles in the media and governmental presentation of this unprecedentedly global conflict. Shooting Range: Photography & The Great War draws on a selection of magnificent private archives to show how this then relatively new technology was used for a variety of propaganda purposes. Reproducing a massive wealth of archival postcards, newspaper and magazine features, photo albums, commemorative images and amateur photographs from all sides of the conflict, it looks at the ways in which battlefields were staged for media images, the strict protocols on photography at the Front, and the obviation of these restrictions by private soldiers. The result is a fascinating tale of tensions between power and powerlessness, between the visible and the hidden, between public representation and historical document."--Amazon.com.

Subject

• World War (1914-1918)
• 1914-1918
• War photography > Exhibitions
• World War, 1914-1918 > Art and the war > Exhibitions
• World War, 1914-1918 > Exhibitions
• Art and war
• War photography

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Art
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition: Shooting Range: Fotografie in de vuurlinie? (Shooting range: Photography and The Great War)--FoMu, June 26-November 11, 2014"

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Elviera Velghe -- World War One: a turning point / Rein Deslé -- Unimaginable / Inge Henneman -- Ambiguous film images / Lyne Viskens -- Ilustrated, illustrierte, illustrée... the press Inneke Daghelet -- Battlefield. Action! Time's up, over you go! / Maureen Magerman ; Press: supply and demand ; Splendid pictures of the fighting ; Tanks in action! ; Spectacle: Convincing battle scenes, Terrible realism, Intimate insight, True colors ; Weapon: Official photography at the front, German narratives after 1924 ; Document: Film as propaganda -- Death. Losses. Dead bodies on a cart / Tamar Cachet ; Taboo: The immortal fatherland ; The enemy dead: Sensation, Trophies ; Heroic sons: Field of honor -- Enemy. Prisoners of war: On view, Typology, Peers ; Brothers: Truce! ; Fraternizing with the enemy / Gita Deneckere -- Souvenir. The last portrait ; Stereotypes ; Shot by soldiers ; Selfie with dead body / Bruno De Wever -- Ravage. Ruins: Poor little Belgium, The devil's perspective, Front tourism ; Atrocity propaganda: Call to revenge, Friendly fire ; A photo book like a phosphor bomb / Johan Pas.

ISBN

• 9491775545
• 9789491775543

OCLC

• 889733828
• SCSB-10893137

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library