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The Camera At War. A History of
War Photography From 1848 to the Present Day. By
Jorge Lewinski, published by Simon and Schuster. 1978, 240 pages.
This book is the First Edition. This is an oversize hardbound book
with the dust jacket. This book has a round personalized imprint
stamp on the flyleaf, otherwise it is in like new excellent condition.
The dust jacket has a tear along the top back edge, otherwise it is also
excellent. The Camera at War is an in-depth look at the war photographer and the development of an art which, by capturing selective images of world-shaking events, has altered our perception of war. From its beginnings in the 1840s to the present, war photography has developed from a technological novelty into a highly influential medium-one that has had a major impact on the way we view the phenomenon of war. With more than 300 classic photographs and a fascinating text, The Camera at War traces the evolution of war photography through the changing role of the photographer himself. As a distant witness in the Crimean War and the American Civil War, when primitive equipment allowed only observation from the sidelines, he sent home the first photographic images of large-scale man-made destruction. He was still a dispassionate observer in World War I, when governments controlled both the taking of pictures and their release to the public, but he was an enlisted combatant in World War II, when photography became an integral part of the war machinery. He became an intimate companion in Korea and Northern Ireland, taking close-up shots of the violence and devastation, and recording their effects on both soldiers and civilians. finally, he emerged as an intense explorer of the Vietnam conflict, analyzing the war with a more penetrating eye, and lending his images a terrifying sense of immediacy. The Camera at War covers the entire range of war photography and the men and women who made it an art form. Mathew Brady, who was responsible for making the American Civil War the first to receive full photographic coverage; Robert Capa, a front-line photographer during the Spanish Civil War, whose ''Death of a Loyalist Soldier'' caused a still-unresolved controversy; Margaret Bourke- White, the only Western photographer to penetrate the Russian front in World War II; Don McCullin, whose coincidental presence in Cyprus in 1963 resulted in an award-winning photographic spread; Philip Jones Griffiths, who captured on film the misery and corruption behind the battlefronts of Vietnam. The Camera at War is an exploration and appraisal of war photography as both art and documentary, as well as an affirmation of the power and potency of the still photograph. About the Author Jorge Lewinski is senior lecturer in photography and art history at the London College of Printing. He has held many one-man exhibitions, and his work is in permanent collections in Britain and America. His books include Byron's Greece (with Lady Langford), Colour in Focus (with Bob Clark), and Photography: A Dictionary of Photographers, Terms and Techniques. |
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