Title: The First World War : unseen glass plate photographs of the Western front /
Authors: Keyzer, Carl de, 1958-; Van Reybrouck, David; Dyer, Geoff; Doyle, Brian; Stadshallen (Bruges, Belgium),
Year: 2015
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Europe Photography Exhibitions.; World War, 1914-1918 Influence Photography Exhibitions.; Första världskriget 1914-1918.
Abstract: A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras used at the time, the look of the Great War has traditionally been grainy, blurred, and monochrome until now. The First World War presents a startlingly different perspective, one based on rare glass plate photographs, that reveals the war with previously unseen, even uncanny, clarity.