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Earliest war photographs (1840-1870)


 
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Contents

Introduction
1The earliest photographs of war and civil conflict
War photography before photography
2Napoleonic Wars
Early examples
3Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
4Year of Revolutions (1848): France, Paris
5Stefano Lecchi: The Defence of Rome (la difesa di Roma) (1849)
6John McCosh: Burma
7Jean-Charles Langlois: The Crimean War
8Gustave Le Gray: Camp de Châlons (1857)

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