Incredible war photography, then and now.
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Since the invention of photography in the early 19th century, war photographers have risked their lives, venturing into war zones, in an attempt to document the reality of war with a camera. Throughout history, particularly during the Second World War, many images were heavily censored and the use of cameras were banned in certain circumstances. Strict rules posed challenges for both the censors and photographers, and the resulting images are intriguing, to say the least.
There are now 11 million photographs in the Imperial War Museum’s archive, many with intriguing stories behind them. But how has the role of war photographer changed throughout history? What were the rules and how did photographers get around them?
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Attributions:
This film includes photographs courtesy of the following organisations:
IWM Collections & IWM Commissioned Photographers
Norfolk Museums Service
Australian official photographers
The National Library of Wales
Magnum Agency
UK Army Film & Photographic Unit
UK RAF Film & Photographic Unit
Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Engineers
German official photographers
US official photographers
Life Magazine
Library of Congress
Australian Imperial Force, official photographers
And the film also includes photographic works created by the following individuals (where their identity is known):
Paul Seawright
Roger Fenton
Olive Edis
Cecil Beaton
Ernest Brooks
Donald McCullin
Bill Brandt
Matthew Brady
Herbert William Lawson Preston
Heinrich Hoffmann
Officer F G Goodchild
Sgt Norman Midgley
Horace Nicholls
James Jarche
Harry Ewin
Mrs Albert Broom
Hoffman, George Spencer
Jack de Nijs for Anefo
Captain Herbert F Baldwin
Sgt Ron Hudson
Pat Aylwood
Pilot Officer Vasey
Martin Omaha
Flug 4 Rbz.A Reihenbildzug Abteilung
Non photographic artworks featured:
IWM commissioned Watercolour painting by Geoffrey Stephen Allfree.
Sketches by George Spencer Hoffman
Sketch book by Raymond Monbiot.
Sketch book by Ronald William Fordham Searle.
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A deep dive on some of those photos exlaining why exactly they were censoredwould be pretty interesting
This is what I actually expected from the clickbait
Video is miscaptioned... this has very little to do with the photographs (which would have been interesting); this is a broad history of war-time photography.
Actually explain the context.
No it isn't miscaptioned (sic).
The caption contains “photography’, not “photographs”. How is it miscaptioned? Maybe just misunderstood?
@@logosera Caption was corrected.
The Photojournalism course offered by Royal Holloway via Coursera ('The Camera Never Lies' Prof. Sullivan) was fascinating. I don't recall this footage being included in the syllabus.
Interesting but misleading upload title and description. Little or no examination of what was censored and what was allowed to be published and why.
I will be hesitant about watching future material from this channel.
Good point, but do watch other IWM material - it's usually very good and historically accurate.
7:59 I wonder why the WRAF was ordered deleted from the bomber crew debrief photo.
Don't forgot the use in China during WWII. Japanese Imperial Army soldiers proudly documented atrocities they committed in Naking (Nanjing). For processing they sent the film to labs in Shanghai where Chinese lab workers made extra copies that were sent to the Chinese government, shared round the world.
Just one image you showed sent me down a rabbit hole of googling well... War rabbits. Now I know way too much about rabbit fur, and I cant stop thinking about rabbit keeping vs chickens to feed armies.
I haven’t checked but I think that rabbit was off-ration in WW2.
When I was small in the 40s, early 50s, my family bred rabbits for meat because there were no restrictions or rationing.
@@Oligodendrocyte139 Didn't they introduce myxamatosis ,(spelling wrong.) to the UK rabbit population during WW2 to stop them eating crops?
@@anthonydoyle7370 I suspect you’re thinking of Australia where it was deliberately introduced in 1950. Myxomatosis first appeared in the UK in 1953, probably from France but it isn’t clear if it was deliberate or not. Either way it was devastating (truly, not as the word is used nowadays). And it’s a horrible disease, I was brought up on a farm and have seen it.
Superb programme, erudite and professional. Robin Witting
My dad had a small camera all thru ww2 and the Korean war and have hundreds of photos plus the negatives i still cherish today.
Please make sure, your collection will be saved when you can't take care of it longer.
I'm still waiting for my mother to dig out all the old photos, so I can scan them. My father was stationed in Alaska during the Korean war, and I remember seeing a couple of interesting shots that I'd very much like to get. I hope I don't have to wait for my mother to die to get access....
On the other hand, a friend's father was stationed in Korea in 1953, and he took several hundred color slides. I've scanned all of them, but it's taking a very long time to digitally clean them--they weren't stored properly, so they're filthy. Still, I've gotten a fair number of them fixed up...and a few that are probably beyond redemption. I'd be very interested in scanning your father's photos, but I don't see that happening. I fully intend to share these Korean war photos, as soon as I find a replacement for deviantART and Flickr.
These photos are gems. I hazzard to guess the authenticity of photos these days due to modern manipulation.
what is funny though, is the manipulation started as earely as the camera itself. The image of the cannon balls at 1:32 were actually manipulated and changed to fit a narrative. We never change!
‘A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all of them are truthful.”
Brilliant video. Huzzah!!
I remember browsing a used book store & finding a book of photos, one photo in particular struck me. It was blk/wht and, described as a WWl trench with a shell exploding just as the picture was taken which killed the photographer, you can see the trench details and, a bright white burst of light ie the shell exploding, wish I had purchased it.
As a falklands veteran I do find it annoying the lack of photo/video coverage some 40 years past. I guess Thatchers draconian attitude drevaded everything.
What on Earth has Mrs Thatcher
to do with a lack of photos?
Please advise.
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Because it will have been a political decision to how many photographers were sent on the mission, and we absolutely know that the press communication was very limited and censored. Additionally, you would have needed photographers embedded with the fighting units and that costs space and logistics so it's easier to say no. With a longer or closer fight the press could have been accommodated, but they they weren't.
@@malcolmmoy
The BBC
informed the world
of the attack on Goose Green
before
it took place.
Usually there are MOD photographers.
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@@malcolmmoy The inclusion of photography can be used as evidence !! War is War if everyone was to experience there would never be anyone to fight it !!!
Why was the camera mentioned at 4mins called “automatic?”
An ‘Automatic” camera at this time tended to refer to a camera having a spooling mechanism that progressed a Reel of Film after each photograph was taken, either by a manual lever or wheel crank, allowing for faster photography. Prior to this most cameras were single shot, with a film negative that had to be manually replaced within the camera after each photograph. You tend to see these big Film blocks being slid into large tripod cameras after each photograph.
Very interesting👍
😊 The 'camera' never lies
imagine going into battle with a german zeiss ikon super ikonta
Photography can also mislead and in more recent years out right lie! The problem is perspective. Something seen from one angle can appear wrong while viewed from another angle it is understandable and completely correct! A single image or a shortened video can be totally misleading. Telling/ providing a false narative.
The picture on the titled, shows a vehical hit by machine gun fire after coming between a tiger, and American tank destroyer at the junction in front of cologne cathedral, I believe, car with male and female inside man killed instantly, young female injured, found later removed to the side of road barely alive, sadly run over by tank as covered with cloth, there is a documentary about this , cross fire is deadly ,
Very well done. So much in a short video.
Life magazine had bound book of a year of issues. I have 1944.
Interesting
These are standard crop marks from the lithographic era of newspaper journalism
A ten minute summary of war photography, with more emphasis on WWI. The title of this video is a misnomer to draw the viewer in. Too general an overview.
Who is they?
I always ask this question... and rarely get an answer.
T P T B . . . @@davidhoward4715
Misleading. This is a history of the camera in a wartime setting. To be honest, I don't care they didn't want me to see this. But why not? these photos are rated G
wow 3 mins+ AUSTIN 3
Photography was not invented in the 1820's. Mid 1830's at best.
Invented by Nicéphore Niépce in 1824.
I LOVE HISTORY!