Photography During World War 1

A staggering amount of photographic prints were produced during the first world war.

Photography during world war 1. It not only provided information for troops while in combat but it also provides a visual memory of just how badly european cities were impacted by world war i. The first official attempts at war photography were made by the british government at the start of the crimean war in march 1854 gilbert elliott was commissioned to photograph views of the russian fortifications along the coast of the baltic sea. Roger fenton was the first official war photographer and the first to attempt a systematic coverage of war for the benefit of the public. Brooks who eventually covered the western front ended the war as a highly decorated photographer and went on to work as an official photographer to the royal family.

World war one photography wwi german facial dueling scars mensur scars and wwi portraits. Many cameras were still bulky with slow shutter speeds restricting their use to posed shots on tripods. Although the earliest war photography dates back to the mexican war of 1846 the first world war 1914 18 was the first major conflict to follow the iwidespread availability of cheap photography. The same debates still go on in context of a war zone what may be different about conflicts now and the first world war is the question of whether the war itself is justified mr.

Battles of the isonzo 1915 1918. The first commercially successful mass produced cameras for which the user took the photographs and then sent the film to a developer to be processed appeared in the 1880s. K u k infantry regiment rupprecht crown prince of bavaria no. Aerial photography was a useful tool both during and after the war.

This is a collection of 375 original photos which were taken mostly by andreas maraschky during world war one. Various sources give slightly differing figures but whilst maybe a few hundred aerial photographs had been taken during the opening six months of the war by 1918 well over five million were produced in just nine months air 1 724 91 2. The original photos are about 9x14 cm. Infantry regiment of the 86th division while stationed in france before being switched over to the 256th prisoner of war escort company 256 during the occupation of germany.

Photography in the first world war was made possible by earlier developments in chemistry and in the manufacture of glass lenses established as a practical process from the 1850s onwards. Aerial photography made its military debut during the first world war. A century ago in the summer of 1914 a series of events set off an unprecedented global conflict that ultimately claimed the lives of more than 16 million.