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Contents
Introduction
1Introduction to war photography
Naval photography
2Introduction to naval photography
Military acceptance of photography
3Ordnance Survey Building, Southampton (1859)
4Photography and the British Army
Journalists at war
5Journalists at war
Problematic issues
6Photographs of war dead
7American Civil War (1861-1865): The dead
8John Reekie: Collecting Remains of the Dead
9Willoughby Wallace Hooper: The scandal of delaying a firing squad
10Prisoners of war
11Censorship of war photography
12Faking war photographs
13Reuse of miltary stereoviews
14Humanity in terrible times
15The landscapes of war
16The civilian impact of War
17Issues of interpretation of building structures
18Wars and the lack of photographic evidence
19Amateur photography and war
20Boer War (1899-1902): Fabrications
21British Munitions Company Limited - Verdun (1916-1918)
22National and ethnic perspectives of war
23Veterans
24War memorials
25Fractured history
26War and the destruction of photohistory
Rephotographic studies
27Rephotographic studies of conflicts and wars
The impact of changing technologies
28The changing technologies of war photography
29Fashion: Accessories: Gas masks
30Night vision imagery
31Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib
32William Laven: War Models
33Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project
34Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier)
35Balazs Gardi: Basetrack One-Eight, Afghanistan (2010-2011)
Aftermath
36David Dare Parker: Agent Orange, Vietnam
Thoughts
37The aesthetics of conflict
38War conclusions
Postscript
39A postscript to war - Don McCullin
Thesaurus
War
 
Themes
   War

Alternative names
 
War and combat photography
 
A closer look
 
Afghanistan Wars (1979-?)
Algerian Civil War (1991-2002)
Algerian War of Independence (1950s)
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Anglo-Egyptian War (1882)
Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
Boer War (1899-1902)
Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975)
Chechen War (1995-?)
Cold War (1945-1991)
Crimean War (1854-1856)
Earliest war photographs (1840-1870)
Falklands - Malvinas War (1982)
First World War (1914-1918)
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Greek Civil War (1946-1949)
Gulf War (1990-1991)
Indian Mutiny (1857-1858)
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Italian Risorgimento (1849-1871)
Korean Punitive Expedition (1871)
Korean War (1950-1953)
Mexican Revolution (1910-early 1920s)
Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Middle East (1948-?)
Modoc War (1872-1873)
North American Indian Wars (1860-1900)
Northern Ireland - The Troubles (1960s-1998)
Paris Commune (1871)
Russian Revolution (1917)
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Second Afghan War (1878-1880)
Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860)
Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1936)
Second Schleswig War / Prussian-Danish War (1864)
Second World War (1939-1945)
Spanish American War (1898)
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Terrorism
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870)
Year of Revolutions (1848)
Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999)

See also
 
Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography
Documentary
Evidence
Military
Naval Aviation Photographic Unit
Patriotism
Photographers who died in action
Photojournalism
Propaganda
The Holocaust (1933-1945)

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Pictorialism
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Scientific
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Sports and pastimes
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Typologies
Vernacular
War
Photographers
Max Alpert (1899-1980), Dmitri Baltermants (1912-1990), Micha Bar-Am (1930-), Felice Beato (1832-1909), Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Yannis Behrakis (1960-2019), Werner Bischof (1916-1954), R.B. Bontecou (1824-1907), Jozef Emiel Borrenbergen (1884-), Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896), Ernest Brooks, Larry Burrows (1926-1971), Robert Capa (1913-1954), Agustin Victor Casasola (1874-1938), Dean Chapman, Luc Delahaye (1962-), Raymond Depardon (1942-), David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018), Adrian J. Ebell (1840-1877), Editions S.T.L., Carl Ehlers, Emmanuel Evzerikhin (1911-1984), Horst Faas (1933-2012), Enrique Fazio, Roger Fenton (1819-1869), L. Fiorillo, Fisherview Scientific Materials Co., Leonard Freed (1929-2006), Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), Ashley Gilbertson (1978-), Burt Glinn (1925-2008), Philip Jones Griffiths (1936-2008), Bert Hardy (1913-1995), Tim Hetherington (1970-2011), Chris Hondros (1970-2011), Frank Hurley (1885-1962), Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997), An-My Lê (1960-), Don McCullin (1935-), Susan Meiselas (1948-), Chester Michalik, Lee Miller (1907-1977), Christopher Morris (1958-), James Nachtwey (1948-), Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1882), Tim Page (1944-2022), Paris-Stéréo, Alessandro Pavia (1824-1889), Gilles Peress (1946-), Georgii Petrusov (1903-1971), Presko Binocular Co., Realistic Travels, Sophie Ristelhueber (1949-), James Robertson (1813-1888), George Rodger (1908-1995), Walter Rosenblum (1919-2006), Paul Senn (1901-1953), Paul Shambroom (1956-), W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978), Humphrey Spender (1910-2005), Edward Steichen (1879-1973), Lou Stoumen (1917-1991), Ellen Susan, Yuval Tebol, Yosuke Yamahata (1917-1966), Georgi Zelma (1906-1984)
     
   
Themes
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Introduction
1Introduction to war photography
Naval photography
2Introduction to naval photography
Military acceptance of photography
3Ordnance Survey Building, Southampton (1859)
4Photography and the British Army
Journalists at war
5Journalists at war
Problematic issues
6Photographs of war dead
7American Civil War (1861-1865): The dead
8John Reekie: Collecting Remains of the Dead
9Willoughby Wallace Hooper: The scandal of delaying a firing squad
10Prisoners of war
11Censorship of war photography
12Faking war photographs
13Reuse of miltary stereoviews
14Humanity in terrible times
15The landscapes of war
16The civilian impact of War
17Issues of interpretation of building structures
18Wars and the lack of photographic evidence
19Amateur photography and war
20Boer War (1899-1902): Fabrications
21British Munitions Company Limited - Verdun (1916-1918)
22National and ethnic perspectives of war
23Veterans
24War memorials
25Fractured history
26War and the destruction of photohistory
Rephotographic studies
27Rephotographic studies of conflicts and wars
The impact of changing technologies
28The changing technologies of war photography
29Fashion: Accessories: Gas masks
30Night vision imagery
31Iraq War (2003-2011): Abu Ghraib
32William Laven: War Models
33Satellite Sentinel and the Enough Project
34Yuval Tebol: Land Research Project (2017 or earlier)
35Balazs Gardi: Basetrack One-Eight, Afghanistan (2010-2011)
Aftermath
36David Dare Parker: Agent Orange, Vietnam
Thoughts
37The aesthetics of conflict
38War conclusions
Postscript
39A postscript to war - Don McCullin

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