Picturing The Western Front Photography Practices And Experiences In First World War France Beatriz Pichel by Beatriz Pichel 9781526151902, 1526151901 instant download after payment.

Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers
produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives
specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in personal
albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed
to tell the story of the war. Picturing the Western Front argues
that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians’ war
experiences. Doing photography (taking pictures, posing for them,
exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them) allowed combatants and
civilians to make sense of what they were living through. Photography
mattered because it enabled combatants and civilians to record events,
establish or reinforce bonds with one another, represent bodies, place
people and events in imaginative geographies and making things visible,
while making others, such as suicide, invisible. Photographic practices
became, thus, frames of experience.