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29 Jul, 8 tweets, 4 min read
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.

archive.org/details/ldpd_6… Image
"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!)

archive.org/details/howifi… Image
Winner of the best title award: James Jarche, “People I have shot.”

archive.org/details/in.ern… Image
And, heck, why not a memoir by a war correspondent? Here is Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett’s “The Uncensored Dardanelles.”

archive.org/details/dli.er… Image
These are all the oldies-but-goodies. Who’s got some more contemporary military history/art memoirs that they love?

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30 Jul
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 👇🏽 Image
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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17 Jun
Great question! Lots to talk about with this one.

First of all, collectors do love to get their hands on vintage prints. In a lot of cases it means you've acquired a print made by the person who also took the negative. Having both would be a serious coup 👇🏻🧵
It's important to note that some photographers almost never made prints from their own negatives. Photojournalists are sometimes a good example of this.

First World War photographers had a hand in developing their negs, but they didn't make prints.
BUT having a 100+ year old print that's A) made with historic materials and B) lived a good long life and C) was printed by the same guy who did all the other prints has something that theorist Walter Benjamin calls the "aura."
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26 May
Photograph taken by Ivor Castle, September 1916, O-758. This photograph was taken close to the same time as Castle's series Over the Top 👇🏻👇🏻
It's not super weird that the NY Tribune published it nearly 2 years later. The New York Times' Midweek Pictorial also published photographs a little later than when they were taken (not always this late though).
An essay on the NYT photographs is on my long to-do list.

The research for it was, get this, FUNDED! Thanks @RICgallery, you are amazing.
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30 Apr
I spend most of my time analyzing how #VimyRidge was represented in photographs, but every now and then I have to turn to text too.

A few things to point out in this 1917 article from the Canadian War Pictorial 👇🏻
One thing to admit: this is only one report of the battle but it was written by the Canadian War Records Office, and who was more likely to aggrandize this event than the Canadians who produced wartime propaganda?*
*Propaganda meant something v different in 1917. You can thank the SWW & rise of fascism for that.
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15 Apr
Hi Everyone! I'd love for you all to participate in this #duffhistory poll. I had some trouble wording it quite the way I wanted it to, but essentially I'd love to know if you've seen any of the following photos online and been swayed by misinformation.

Go on, be honest 👇🏼
I paired it up with a super old pic of me holding a vintage camera, because we need to get some visibility and beat that algorithm, fam. Share away to your hearts content!
PLEASE NOTE: I have given all of the photos fake names. I know what the true provenance of most of the photos are, but I want to get people's genuine reactions to seeing them, rather than do my normal supply of accurate info sharing.

(That's me tooting my own horn).
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23 Mar
A new #warphotos thread to brighten up your Tuesday and you’re going to want to bookmark this one. What follows is a step-by-step guide on how to find Canadian official First World War photographs. Image
(Photograph is: Lt. Charles Hemming “Chas” Hastings, CWRO Records Officer, ca. 1916-1919, unattributed, LAC MIKAN 3216622).
If you cast your mind back to May 1919, you can almost picture Canadian official war photographer William Rider-Rider escorting big heavy crates of glass-plate negatives across the Atlantic to Canada.
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