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

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Dr Beatriz Pichel

Picturing the Western Front

Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France

Dr Beatriz Pichel

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Manchester University Press
15 October 2023

Photography & photographs; Social & cultural history; First World War

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

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.

By: Dr Beatriz Pichel
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9781526172006
ISBN 10: 1526172003
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Beatriz Pichel is Associate Professor in Photographic History at De Montfort University -- .

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

'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) -- .