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From the scorched landscapes of the Crimea to the visceral reportage of modern conflict, war photography has always been a site of trauma, propaganda, and witness. Luminous-Lint provides an exhaustive cross-reference of conflict history, documenting how the lens has shaped our understanding of battle.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to war photography
Naval photography
2Introduction to naval photography
Military acceptance of photography
3Ordnance Survey Building, Southampton (1859)
4Photography and the British Army
Journalists at war
5Journalists at war
Problematic issues
6Photographs of war dead
7American Civil War (1861-1865): The dead
8John Reekie: Collecting Remains of the Dead
9Willoughby Wallace Hooper: The scandal of delaying a firing squad
10Prisoners of war
11Censorship of war photography
12Faking war photographs
13Reuse of miltary stereoviews
14Humanity in terrible times
15The landscapes of war
16The civilian impact of War
17Issues of interpretation of building structures
18Wars and the lack of photographic evidence
19Amateur photography and war
20Boer War (1899-1902): Fabrications
21British Munitions Company Limited - Verdun (1916-1918)
22National and ethnic perspectives of war
23Veterans
24War memorials
25Fractured history
26War and the destruction of photohistory
Rephotographic studies
27Rephotographic studies of conflicts and wars
The impact of changing technologies
28The changing technologies of war photography
29Fashion: Accessories: Gas masks
30Night vision imagery
31Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib
32William Laven: War Models
33Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project
34Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier)
35Balazs Gardi: Basetrack One-Eight, Afghanistan (2010-2011)
Aftermath
36David Dare Parker: Agent Orange, Vietnam
Thoughts
37The aesthetics of conflict
38War conclusions
Postscript
39A postscript to war - Don McCullin

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