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The camera at war : a history of war photography from 1848 to the present day / Jorge Lewinski.
LIBRA - Rare TR820.6 .L48 1978 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewinski, Jorge.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War photography--History.
- War photography.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Howard, John A. (autograph) (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, [1978]
- Contents:
- Distant witness: 1848-1912
- Dispassionate observer: First World War
- Spanish Civil War
- Enlisted combatant: Second World War
- Intimate companion: Korea
- Northern Ireland
- Intense explorer: Vietnam
- Civilians, children and women.
- Notes:
- "In the last thirty years war photography has come of age. It has acquired authority, skill, and vision, and, in the process, has made its mark on how we see and think about war in a way in which the first exponents in the nineteenth century could never have dreamed possible."--P. 9.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Frost Collection copy has autograph and embossed stamp of John A. Howard.
- ISBN:
- 0671252194
- 9780671252199
- OCLC:
- 44170483
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