War Photography

by Joëlle Bolloch

Two of the major conflicts of the second half of the nineteenth century, the Crimean War and the American Civil War, gave photographers their first opportunity to approach the battlefield. Techniques at the time barred them from photographing combat, so they focused on events before and after battle. World War I brought the first aerial photography, and the opportunity for soldiers themselves to take their own pictures.

96 pages, Paperback

First published July 31, 2007