Product Details
Hardcover
360 pages
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Published 2003
Book Description
A remarkable photographic history depicting the changing face of war in the age of the camera matched with contemporary voices from reporters or from the diaries, letters and other records of the combatants themselves.
Synopsis
This is the story of photography in war - from the Crimean War and American Civil War through two World Wars, from Vietnam and the Gulf War to the Balkans and beyond, photographers have been drawn to the battlefront. The best war photography bares the essence of war by distilling the chaos of combat into indelible visual icons, such as the napalmed young Vietnamese girl or the flag-raising in Iwo Jima. The camera was part of the technological revolution that started to transform warfare in the middle of the 19th century. As weapons have become more deadly, cameras have kept pace, getting smaller, quicker, longer ranged. This volume includes nearly 300 of the most powerful photographs from the battlefront, and, increasingly, home front: unforgettable images like Alexander Gardner's of the Civil War dead after Antietam in 1862, still the bloodiest day in American history; Robert Capa's, Margaret Bourke White's and Yevgeni Khaldei's of World War II; or Don McCullin's and Larry Burrows' of Vietnam. Counterpointing the images of war are selected descriptions of the experience of war from combatants recorded in diaries, memoirs and letters. |
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