
Cameras at War
Photo Gear that Captured 100 Years of Conflict - From Crimea to Korea
John Wade(Author)
Pen & Sword Military (Publisher)
Published on 21. July 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-5267-6010-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 100 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Illustrations
260 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5267-6010-4 (9781526760104)
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07/2020
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Person
John Wade is a freelance writer and photographer, with more than forty years' experience in both fields. He has written, illustrated, edited and contributed to more than thirty books, plus numerous magazine articles, for book and magazine publishers in the UK, US and Australia. His specialities are photographic history and techniques, as well as social history. His most recent books include _The Golden Age of Science Fiction_ (Pen & Sword, 2019), _London Curiosities_ (Pen & Sword, 2017), and _The Ingenious Victorians_ (Pen & Sword, 2016).