Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France

Author:   Dr Beatriz Pichel
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9781526172006


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   29 August 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France


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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.

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Author:   Dr Beatriz Pichel
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781526172006


ISBN 10:   1526172003
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   29 August 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Recording. The photographic archive of the war 2. Feeling. Private, Official and Press Photography as Emotional Practices 3. Embodying. The multiple meanings of the body of the combatant, the mutilated and the dead 4. Placing. Imaginative geographies, photography and the sense of place 5. Making visible and invisible Conclusions Bibliography List of primary sources Index -- .

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'Likely to mark a significant turning point in how photographs are used and viewed as historical sources. [...] Dr Pichel has opened up a new dynamic way of thinking about photography in terms of emotion, relationships and the rituals of photographic practices.' James Downs, Photographica World Magazine (April 2022) -- .


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Beatriz Pichel is Senior Lecturer in Photographic History at De Montfort University.

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