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@CarlaJeanStokes
Jul 29, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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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) Image
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.

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"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. Image
"The Balkan war: adventures of war with cross and crescent," by Bernard Grant and Philip Gibbs.

archive.org/details/balkan… Image
"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!)

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Winner of the best title award: James Jarche, “People I have shot.”

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And, heck, why not a memoir by a war correspondent? Here is Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett’s “The Uncensored Dardanelles.”

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These are all the oldies-but-goodies. Who’s got some more contemporary military history/art memoirs that they love?

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Aug 24, 2022
One thing that can be a little bit surprising is the degree to which pre-digital photographers were able to alter their photographs.

In fact, the tools we use today in Photoshop are often named after their darkroom counterparts: dodge, burn, mask, layer, and more 👇🏼🧵 Photograph of a darkroom wi...
Today I want to talk about what happens usually after the print goes to press (as opposed to changes the photographer themselves might do, though they could).
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May 22, 2022
Guys, I'm really happy and proud to be your #1 source of knowledge on visual culture (I kid, I kid).

Today, its apparently necessary to point out that paintings sometimes* convey messages rather than straightforward & literal moments in history.

*Pretty much always. Examples 🧵
I find myself often giving my hot takes on how photography is subjective.

The photographer chooses what to depict. It's their way of saying "hey! Look at this!"

It's less often that anyone needs to explain to fully grown ass adults that paintings are not literal.
A famous Canadian example? Look no further than to Benjamin West's famous painting, "The Death of General Wolfe," completed in 1770. It belongs to @NatGalleryCan. Painting by Benjamin West, entitled "the Death of Gener
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Nov 8, 2021
Today, let's talk about some handy tips to determine whether #FWW photographs you might have at home are Canadian or British official 👇🏼🧵
Photograph is: Ivor Castle, A trench on the Canadian Front showing Trunk Holes, May 1917, private collection.
Photographs were available to private buyers in a number of ways - as postcards (Canadian official sold by the Daily Mirror), stereograph cards (Underwood and Underwood, Keystone), or even lantern slides (Newton).
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Nov 7, 2021
I've got just enough time to answer another question from last week's photography talk with @LCMSDS.

This one is from @crg498: "Rider-Rider is an interesting surname. What can you tell us about his background and family history?"
Rider-Rider IS an unusual surname. So much so, that I’ve had a TON of trouble finding much about his genealogy. We know that he married a Rosina Ada Hill and that they had a son together less than 9 months later.

What did they name that babe? William Rider-Rider, of course.
Seriously, of all the photographers, R-R is the one for whom I have the least genealogical information.

I've got far more on his wife, Rosina Ada, who was blessed with a less ridiculous surname.
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Oct 8, 2021
So what was this poll all about? Read on to learn more about how you can easily identify Canadian official First World War photographs based on some physical attributes 🧵👇🏽
The other morning, I had a collector friend send me an email about a photograph he was looking at on eBay. He had done some googling and found this site, claiming the photograph was taken by a nurse.

cbrl.ca/mclennans/war.…
He asked if I thought that was true, and I told him that I had indeed seen the photograph (I often use it in my presentations because it’s a fun one) and that it was taken by an official photographer.
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Jul 30, 2021
War photography exhibitions date back to the mid-19th century. Some of the earliest included images of the Crimea and the US Civil War.

In recent decades, we've seen some excellent exhibitions of #warphotos, and I've listed a few catalogues here below 👇🏽
One of the most important texts that you need to check out is Anne Wilkes Tucker (et al’s) “War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath.” This exhibition was mounted at the MFA Houston in 2012.
War/Photography takes a thematic approach to how wars have been photographed across the decades.

It weighs about 28 lbs to carry, but it's worth the sore arms.
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