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First World War (1914-1918)


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to the First World War (1914-1918)
Patriotism and enlisting
2Your country needs you
3Patriotism and enlisting
Logistics
4British Munitions Company Limited - Verdun (1916-1918)
The Front
5Photographs of the front during the First World War (1914-1918)
6Soldiers during the First World War (1914-1918)
7Trench warfare during the First World War (1914-1918)
8Artillery and munitions during the First World War (1914-1918)
9Explosions during the First World War (1914-1918)
10Devastation of French cities, towns and villages during the First World War (1914-1918)
11Forests and landscapes of the First World War (1914-1918)
12Tanks during the First World War (1914-1918)
13Allied intelligence panoramas taken during the First World War (1914-1918)
Themes
14Propaganda during the First World War (1914-1918)
15Identity cards and passes during the First World War (1914-1918)
16Prisoners of war during the First World War (1914-1918)
17Refugees during the First World War (1914-1918)
18French photographic competitions during the First World War (1914-1918)
19Medical and nursing during the First World War (1914-1918)
20Death and remembrance during the First World War (1914-1918)
21Elliott and Fry during the First World War - portraits often gain a mournful interest (1917)
22Olive Edis: British women's services at the battlefields of France and Flanders (1918-1919)
23Veterans of the First World War (1914-1918)
Censorship
24U.S. Army: Analysis of why photographs were censored during the First World War (1926)
Aerial warfare, reconnaissance and bombing photography
25Zeppelins and balloons during the First World War (1914-1918)
26Aircraft during the First World War
27Mrs. Gladys Maud Cockburn-Lange and her faked First World War dogfight photographs
28First World War (1914-1918): Aerial reconnaissance and bombing photography
29Edward Steichen (compiler): Album of photographs by the Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) (1918-1919)
Stereoviews
30Stereoview series of the First World War
31Stereographs: Use of the same negatives by different companies
Colour photography
32Colour photography during the First World War (1914-1918)
33French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes)
34Fernand Cuville: Autochromes of the First World War
35Color postcards of the battles at Verdun
36Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the First World War
Photographic fabrications
37Photographic fabrications of the First World War
Records of the War
38Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud: 1914-1919 La Guerre
Conclusions
39Thoughts on photography during the First World War (1914-1918)

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