Film and the war

First Military Operation by the US Army - World War 1 - Battle of St Mihiel

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• Artist: Louis D. Fancher

• Camera Technology: Lighter, more portable, more durable negatives can be developed on site, faster shutter speeds

A Bosnian Serb nationalist captured by police immediately after assassination of Franz Ferdinand & his wife

Soldiers of an

Australian 4th Division

field artillery brigade

walk on a duckboard

track

The front in France, a scene on a battlefield at midnight.

• Roger Fention, The Valley of the Shadow of Death,

• Fenton’s Photographic Van, Crimean War

Belgian soldier smokes a cigarette during a fight between Dendermonde and Oudegem, Belgium, in 1914.

• Winslow Homer, Sniper, 1863

An Austrian soldier, dead on a battleground, in 1915.

• View from an airplane of biplanes flying in formation, ca. 1914-18. Army Signal Corps

British artillery bombards German positions on the Western Front.

John Warwick Brooke, A British officer leads the way "over the top" amid the bursting of German shells.

• Frank Hurley, the Battle of Zonnebecke, Flanders, 1917

• Frank Hurley, Battle of Passchendaele, 9 October 1917

Images of Passchendaele

• 3rd Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele

Soldiers from the Kings Liverpool Regiment listening to the news being read out as they wait in their trench during World War One. 1918.

• Matthew Brady, A rebel sharpshooter at Gettysburg, July 5, 1863

• View of Verdun, 1916. Photo by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont via Taschen

• Edward Steichen, Battlefield surveillance photo taken from airplane

• Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) and Major Edward J. Steichen, A.S.A.Concrete landing platform for airplanes at Puxieux (each strip about 50 ft. wide by 250 ft long), crescent shape mass was formed by the pile of broken concrete when the platform was removed, altitude 15,000 ft.,(detail)August 23, 1918

• Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)and Major Edward J. Steichen, A.S.A. (American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973)

• Untitled, Vaux, June, 1918

Edward Steichen, Vaux #2, After attack

• Remnants of a communication trench from Verdun, photo taken in 2009

• The Lochnagar mine crater, 1916

Aerial view

• John Singer Sargeent, Gassed,