Today I’ve got a bunch of great memoirs - all written by early press photographers and all have links to download fo’ free!
(Photo by Emre Can Acer from Pexels)
To start, here's Herbert Baldwin's "A War Photographer in Thrace." Baldwin was later hired as Australia's official photographer for a brief time in the #FWW.
archive.org/details/ldpd_6…
"To the four corners, the memoirs of a news photographer," by Bernard Grant.
archive.org/details/tofour…
Grant was a photographer at the Daily Mirror who photographed the Balkan Wars before heading up to Belgium in August 1914 to cover the events unfolding there.
"The Balkan war: adventures of war with cross and crescent," by Bernard Grant and Philip Gibbs.
archive.org/details/balkan…
"How I filmed the war; a record of the extraordinary experiences of the man who filmed the great Somme battles, etc.," by Geoffrey Malins.
(Of course he is now known for having staged a lot of those films of the Somme battles!)
archive.org/details/howifi…
Winner of the best title award: James Jarche, “People I have shot.”
archive.org/details/in.ern…
And, heck, why not a memoir by a war correspondent? Here is Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett’s “The Uncensored Dardanelles.”
archive.org/details/dli.er…
These are all the oldies-but-goodies. Who’s got some more contemporary military history/art memoirs that they love?
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