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Ernest Brooks
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Unidentified photographer, 1917, France: Lieut. Ernest Brooks, official photographer on the Western Front, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/78473
Ernest Brooks


Born: 1878, 23 February
Died: 1936 (after)
Gender: Male
Active: France / UK
 
Official photographer to the British Royal Family, the Admiralty and later the first Official Photographer to the British forces during the First World War. He was the only official photographer to cover the Battle of the Somme. After the war he continued his photography of the Royal Family until 1925 when his appointment was abruptly cancelled.
 
Large collections of his work on the First World War are held by the Imperial War Museum and the National Library of Scotland.

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Unidentified photographer, 1917, France: Lieut. Ernest Brooks, official photographer on the Western Front, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/78473
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Ernest Brooks (23 February 1876 - 1957) was a British photographer, best known for his war photography from the First World War. He was the first official photographer to be appointed by the British military, and produced several thousand images between 1915 and 1918, more than a tenth of all British official photographs taken during the war. His work was often posed and formal, but several of his less conventional images are marked by a distinctive use of silhouette. Before and immediately after the war he worked as an official photographer to the Royal Family, but was dismissed from this appointment and stripped of his official honours in 1925, for reasons that were not officially made public.
 

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