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The Face of War
Sandy Callister
其他書名
New Zealand's Great War Photography
出版Auckland University Press, 2008
主題History / Wars & Conflicts / World War IPhotography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / GeneralPhotography / HistoryPhotography / Photoessays & DocumentariesPhotography / Photojournalism
ISBN18694040769781869404079
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hrMMAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"One hundred thousand New Zealanders went overseas to the First World War - many, for the first time, bearing Kodak cameras. The Face of War is the first book to examine the vernacular photos of World War I taken by its New Zealand participants. In this book, Callister discusses how photography was used to capture and narrate, memorialise and observe, romanticise and bear witness to the experiences of New Zealanders at home and overseas. By 1915 cameras had become affordable and popular, and were used by soldiers themselves to picture war as well as by officials, journalists and medical staff. But photography can be used both to record a true picture and to disguise the unpalatable, particularly in times of war. Callister's discussion is the first to argue for the importance of New Zealand photography to the history of war, but also examines in depth the contradictions of war photography: as a site of remembrance and forgetting; nation and sacrifice; mourning and mythology; subjectivity and identity. The Face of War is an authoritative history of New Zealand's World War I photography and its cultural, emotional and memorial roles"--Publisher's description.