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The First World War : unseen glass plate photographs of the Western front / Carl De Keyzer, David Van Reybrouck ; with a preface by Geoff Dyer ; translations by Brian Doyle.

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The First World War : unseen glass plate photographs of the Western front / Carl De Keyzer, David Van Reybrouck ; with a preface by Geoff Dyer ; translations by Brian Doyle.
Author
Keyzer, Carl de, 1958-
Publication
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Van Reybrouck, David
  • Dyer, Geoff
  • Doyle, Brian (Translator)
  • Stadshallen (Bruges, Belgium), host institution.
Description
240 pages : illustrations; 34 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • 1914-1918
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Europe > Photography > Exhibitions
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Photography > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 14-18: War in Pictures, Bruges at War, in Stadshallen, Bruges (Belgium) from October 14, 2014 to February 22, 2015.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface / Geoff Dyer -- Introduction: Such thick silence / David Van Reybrouck -- A classical aesthetic. Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud ; Isidore Aubert -- Playing with color. Paul Castelnau, Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, Albert Samama-Chikli ; Léon Gimpel: the kids' war -- Coroners of their time. Maurice and Robert Antony ; Isidore Aubert, Paul Castelnau, Fernand Cuville -- Confusion and destruction. Arthur Brusselle ; Albert Moreau -- A disquieting silence. The German collection ; The Vottem memorial portraits.
ISBN
  • 9780226284286
  • 022628428X
LCCN
^^2014951177
OCLC
917367336
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library