The First World War
Subtitle: Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226284286
Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, campaigns; World war, 1914-1918, pictorial works
Description: 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.