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Earliest war photographs (1840-1870)


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

Earliest war photographs (1840-1870)

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War
Earliest war photographs (1840-1870)

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Earliest War Photographs

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Felice Beato (1832-1909), Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896), Enrique Fazio, Roger Fenton (1819-1869), John Kinder (1819-1903), Jean-Charles Langlois (1789-1870), Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), Stefano Lecchi, John McCosh (1805-1885), James Robertson (1813-1888), Eugène Sevaistre (1817-1897), Carol Szathmari (1812-1887), Charles-François Thibault

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

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