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. WAR EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS 50 years of war photographs front the nineteenth century , ' t « *rr* I /Sj V 2^' $!: *- Has > •'.<G&i LN s #* ^Tf & «rji». f9k >.-^i*>. :«r. m mm tfftit' ISBN 0-8212-0630-3 $12.00 EARLY WAR PHOTOGRAPHS Fifty Years ofWar Photographs From the Nineteenth Century Pat Hodgson 97 sepia photographs Photojournalism on the battlefield began almost immediately upon the invention of the camera. Working with cumbersome and unreliable equipment, the first war photographers recorded, to extraordinary effect and free from the bias ofdrawn and written accounts, realities ofcombat, of camp life, the march, and the besieged town. These photographic documents were a revelation to a newspaper audience accustomed to the adventury-story viewpoint ofthe sketch-pad artists who had previouslyaccompanied war correspondents. This book contains photographs ofmilitary subjects from the wars ofthe nineteenth century: they include the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the Franco- Prussian and Boer Wars. Each picture is fully described, with information on the action depicted and details ofthe earliest publication ofthe picture. The text discusses the leading photographers, their equipment and methods, and the conditions under which they worked - including the emergence of fakes and propaganda pictures and the attitudes ofarmy authorities to the new observers in their midst. EARLY WAR PHOTOGRAPHS is a splendidly illustrated segment ofthe history ofphotography, the history ofwarfare, and the history ofman's ability to record and communicate his most intense experiences. Jacket Illustration 'C Company ofthe Royal : Canadian Regiment seizing a kopje at Paardeburg. New York Graphic Society Greenwich, Connecticut Pub 11-15-74 v Hodgson, Pat Early war photographs 909.81 HODGSON SAUSALITO PUBLIC LIBRARY .-.."-'•: MR .*'-*"• - ,v-^.* ^3 ^'JjLuJ'^' 1 &Kf^\dHfio^r-Jf\ijM*fO%^iHsniju 1 ""*.* »*<&« ii'lff.1'] ffiiPi 'Ijsf ;'v'L-*- »?v •4L 5/' My Aarer - • SA^AU7Q OCUf. 94964 t WAR EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS Frontispiece Encampment of the Army of the Potomac, May-June 1862 DC Photograph by James F. Gibson Copyright: Library of Congress, Washington JP\W ^^* * » w- — - * - "V / I: *v5*d&- UMtf WAR EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS Compiled and written by PAT HODGSON SAUSA <AiO SAUSaUTQ, CAUh, 94965 New York Graphic Society Boston A International Standard Book Number 0-8212-0630-3 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-78767 Copyright (' 1974 Osprey Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without written permission of the publishers. Published in Great Britain 1974 by Osprey Publishing Ltd., Reading, Berkshire, England Published in the United States ofAmerica and in Canada by New York Graphic Society Ltd., Boston Printed in Great Britain Contents page Introduction n Bibliography 31 The Photographs 2nd Sikh War 1848-9 General Sir Charles James Napier 34 2nd Burma War 18$2-3 Indian artillery parked before the Great Pagoda, Prome 35 Crimean War 1854-6 Balaclava Harbour 36 Roger Fenton's photographic van 38 The Valley of Death 39 Captain Brown and his servant 40 Lt Col Hallewell, 28th Regiment - his day's work over 41 Henry Duberly Esq, Paymaster 8th Hussars and Mrs Duberly 42 Cookhouse of the 8th Hussars 43 Camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards French and English : have a convivial party 44 Camps of the Light, 2nd and 4th Divisions from Cathcart's Hill 45 Interior of the Redan 46 Interior of barrack battery 47 1 Indian Mutiny 1857-9 Part of barracks held by General Wheeler at Cawnpore after bombardment 49 Interior of the Secundra Bagh 5 Bridge of boats over the Gumti 52 Damage caused by the mine in the Chutter Munzil 54 Lt Mecham and assistant surgeon Thomas Anderson with Sikh officers and men 55 Chinese Wars 1856-60 Pehtang Fort and encampment of Probyn's Sikh Cavalry 56 Pehtang Fort with captured Chinese guns 58 Embrasure, Taku Fort 59 Rear of North Taku Fort after its capture 60 American Civil War 1861—5 Yankee prisoners from Bull Run in Castle Pinckney, Charleston 62 Inspection of troops at Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey 64 Savage Station - Union Field Hospital after the battle 67 Dead by the railway fence on the Hagerstown Pike, Antietam 68 Dunker Church and the dead, Antietam 69 Signal tower on Elk Mountain, overlooking the battlefield of Antietam 70 A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg 71 The aftermath of Sedgwick's assault on Marye's Heights 72 Council of war, Massapomax Church 74 'Mortar dictator' in front of Petersburg 75 Cooper's Battery ready to open fire 76 Federal soldiers relaxing by guns of a captured fort, Atlanta 78 Federal wagon trains move through Petersburg 79 Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators 80 Japan 1864 Inside the Lower Battery at Simonosaki after the fighting 82
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