Cameras at War : Photo Gear That Captured 100 Years of Conflict - from Crimea to Korea / John Wade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wade, John, 1643- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameras--History.

Cameras.

Photography, Military--History.

Photography, Military.

War photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, England : Pen & Sword Books Ltd, [2020]

Summary:

A comprehensive history of the development and use of cameras in recording British military conflicts from the 1850s to the 1950s. Books about war and the pictures that came out of conflict usually concentrate on the picture content. But behind every picture there is a camera-and that's what this book is about. Profusely illustrated throughout with pictures of the cameras, rather than the pictures they took, it looks at one hundred years of conflict from the Crimean War to the Korean War. It begins in the days when a photographer needed to be more of a scientist than an artist, such were the difficulties of shooting and processing any photograph. It ends with the cameras whose compact dimensions, versatility and ease of use meant that photographers could largely forget the science and concentrate on the art. Some cameras simply recorded events. Others defined and changed the way those events proceeded. These were the cameras that went to war, and this is their story. Praise for Cameras at War "An amazing collection of superb photographs beginning with some from the Crimean War-coupled with a brilliant narrative that emphasizes the use of photography to record conflict. Where would we be without such evidentiary mementoes?" - Books Monthly (UK)

Contents:

Cover

Book title

Copyright

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Early Years

Chapter 2 The Crimean War

Chapter 3 Cameras and Photography in 1914

Chapter 4 Focus On: The Vest Pocket Kodak

Chapter 5 The First World War

Chapter 6 Focus On: The Hythe Mark III Machine Gun Camera

Chapter 7 The Years Between the Wars

Chapter 8 Focus On: The Ensign Midget

Chapter 9 The Second World War

Chapter 10 Focus On: The Kodak Medalist

Chapter 11 The Cold War

Chapter 12 Focus On: The Minox

Chapter 13 The Korean War

Glossary of Photographic Terms

Bibliography

Picture Credits

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526760135

1526760134

9781526760111

1526760118

OCLC:

1162816020