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Book A Collection of War time Portraits

Download or read book A Collection of War time Portraits written by Mathew B. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War photography

Download or read book War photography written by Anne Tucker and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Book Portraits of War

Download or read book Portraits of War written by Jeff Seidel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portraits of Remembrance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Hutchison
  • Publisher : War, Memory, and Culture
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0817320504
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book Portraits of Remembrance written by Margaret Hutchison and published by War, Memory, and Culture. This book was released on 2020 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict Although photography and moving pictures achieved ubiquity during the First World War as technological means of recording history, the far more traditional medium of painting played a vital role in the visual culture of combatant nations. The public's appetite for the kind of up-close frontline action that snapshots and film footage could not yet provide resulted in a robust market for drawn or painted battle scenes. Painting also figured significantly in the formation of collective war memory after the armistice. Paintings became sites of memory in two ways: first, many governments and communities invested in freestanding panoramas or cycloramas that depicted the war or featured murals as components of even larger commemorative projects, and second, certain paintings, whether created by official artists or simply by those moved to do so, emerged over time as visual touchstones in the public's understanding of the war. Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War examines the relationship between war painting and collective memory in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, and the United States. The paintings discussed vary tremendously, ranging from public murals and panoramas to works on a far more intimate scale, including modernist masterpieces and crowd-pleasing expressions of sentimentality or spiritualism. Contributors raise a host of topics in connection with the volume's overarching focus on memory, including national identity, constructions of gender, historical accuracy, issues of aesthetic taste, and connections between painting and literature, as well as other cultural forms.

Book World War History Photo Books

    Book Details:
  • Author : Corey Moran
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-05-16
  • ISBN : 9781546714088
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book World War History Photo Books written by Corey Moran and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Photo Book Show Dramatic Tapestry Of The Wartime. Hundreds of images capture fateful moments of triumph and defeat that defined the era, including rare photographs and artifacts, many never-before-seen from private collections that are placed in context with more famous photographs from the period. From 1939 to 1945 Since the World War II Start until End. This Book collect all picture dusring the WWII in series of 10 books. This book spreads feature collections of uniforms, weapons, and other equipment. Maps, timelines, and side panels offer an inviting variety of entry point to the huge wealth of information.

Book World War History Photo Books VOL  8

Download or read book World War History Photo Books VOL 8 written by Corey Moran and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Photo Book Show Dramatic Tapestry Of The Wartime. Hundreds of images capture fateful moments of triumph and defeat that defined the era, including rare photographs and artifacts, many never-before-seen from private collections that are placed in context with more famous photographs from the period.From 1939 to 1945 Since the World War II Start until End. This Book collect all picture dusring the WWII in series of 10 books. This book spreads feature collections of uniforms, weapons, and other equipment. Maps, timelines, and side panels offer an inviting variety of entry point to the huge wealth of information.

Book Veterans

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  • Author : Sasha Maslov
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2017-05-30
  • ISBN : 1616896132
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Veterans written by Sasha Maslov and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ichiro Sudan trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Charin Singh, a farmer from Delhi, spent seven years as a Japanese prisoner of war and was not sent home until four years after the war ended. Uli John lost an arm serving in the German army but ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans—"people who fought in the war and know what war really means." These are some of the faces and stories in the remarkable Veterans, the outcome of a worldwide project by Sasha Maslov to interview and photograph the last surviving combatants from World War II. Soldiers, support staff, and resistance fighters candidly discuss wartime experiences and their lifelong effects in this unforgettable, intimate record of the end of a cataclysmic chapter in world history and tribute to the members of an indomitable generation. Veterans is also a meditation on memory, human struggle, and the passage of time.

Book Portrait of My Mother  who Posed Nude in Wartime

Download or read book Portrait of My Mother who Posed Nude in Wartime written by Marjorie Sandor and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten linked stories that explore the emotional snarls in a secretive Jewish family.

Book The Night Portrait

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  • Author : Laura Morelli
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-09-08
  • ISBN : 0062993585
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book The Night Portrait written by Laura Morelli and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestseller "This is a truly original novel that has earned its place among my favorite works of historical fiction."--Jennifer Robson, USA Today bestselling author of The Gown An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II. Milan, 1492: When a 16-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace—and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands of a high-ranking Nazi leader, she risks her life to recover it, working with an American soldier, part of the famed Monuments Men team, to get it back. Two women, separated by 500 years, are swept up in the tide of history as one painting stands at the center of their quests for their own destinies.

Book Great Photographs of World War II

Download or read book Great Photographs of World War II written by Neil Kagan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxmoor House Great Photographs of World War II (Collectors Edition) The most evocative collection of World War II photographs ever published. Selected by Time Life editors from thousands of images from museums and collections around the world, these photographs tell the haunting story of the war's heroes and horrors. Famous images from LIFE magazine are juxtaposed with rare photographs to give us a unique glimpse of war through the eyes of soldiers and civilians caught up in the most destructive conflict of all time. The editors have assembled over 280 gripping images into 25 chronological photo essays. Here, the most cataclysmic events of the war, from the Battle of Britain and the attack on Pearl Harbor to D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich, are defined by some of the most dramatic photographs of the 20th century. February 2004280+ photos 304 pages1 0 1/2" x 10 1/4" Hardcover with jacket Carton 6, Item 130057 ISBN 0-8487-2818-1 $39.95 US UPC 7-49075-30057-7

Book Gettysburg Faces

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  • Author : Ronald S. Coddington
  • Publisher : Gettysburg Publishing
  • Release : 2022-08-02
  • ISBN : 1734627654
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Gettysburg Faces written by Ronald S. Coddington and published by Gettysburg Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 100 original, rarely seen photographs of identified Union and Confederate soldiers and other participants in the Gettysburg Campaign, each accompanied by vivid accounts of their personal experiences based on letters, journals, newspaper reports, regimental histories and other documents. The photographs are wartime portraits of men and women presented to families, friends and comrades in arms. These unique artifacts, once found in parlor photo albums, fireplace hearths and bedstands, somehow survived the ravages of time and today are in the hands of private collectors. The faces of the individuals reveal the romance and horror of a generation at war. The stories that accompany each image detail triumphant and tragic events before, during and after the three-day fight. These individuals hailed from all walks of life—rich and poor, urban and rural, native born and immigrant, with varying levels of education and perspectives on life. Each profile is a microhistory. Together, they tell the larger story of Gettysburg in human terms. Among those you’ll meet: James M. “Roe” Reisinger of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry, who suffered a wound and later received the Medal of Honor for his actions at on July 1; Helim S. Thompson of the 44th New York Infantry, severely wounded and left for dead on Little Round Top; Zachariah Angel Blanton of the 18th Virginia Infantry, wounded and captured in Pickett’s Charge; and Harriett A. Dada Emens, a nurse who cared for desperately wounded and sick in the Union army’s 12th Corps Hospital.

Book The Oxford Companion to World War II

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to World War II written by Ian Dear and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From blitzkrieg and blackout to ghettos and Guadalcanal, World War II was a conflict that touched all nations and penetrated all aspects of people's lives. Sixty years after it ended, it still shapes the world we live in today. With over 1,750 A-Z entries, by more than 140 specialist contributors from Germany, Italy, and Japan, as well as from the Allied nations, the Companion provides uniquely worldwide coverage of the war. The strategies, forces, battles, and campaigns, and the social, political, and economicenvironments in which they operated are explored from both sides of the conflict. Every aspect of the war is covered: in-depth surveys of the countries involved in the conflict; politics and strategy; domestic and economic issues; resistance and intelligence; campaigns and battles; warfare and weapons; wartime leaders and influential people; slogans and slangThe Companion's comprehensive coverage and in-depth analysis are supported by hundreds of maps, charts, and diagrams, and a full chronology.

Book World War History Photo Books

    Book Details:
  • Author : Corey Moran
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-05-16
  • ISBN : 9781546719175
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book World War History Photo Books written by Corey Moran and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Photo Book Show Dramatic Tapestry Of The Wartime. Hundreds of images capture fateful moments of triumph and defeat that defined the era, including rare photographs and artifacts, many never-before-seen from private collections that are placed in context with more famous photographs from the period. From 1939 to 1945 Since the World War II Start until End. This Book collect all picture dusring the WWII in series of 10 books. This book spreads feature collections of uniforms, weapons, and other equipment. Maps, timelines, and side panels offer an inviting variety of entry point to the huge wealth of information.

Book World War History Photo Books VOL  4

Download or read book World War History Photo Books VOL 4 written by Corey Moran and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Photo Book Show Dramatic Tapestry Of The Wartime. Hundreds of images capture fateful moments of triumph and defeat that defined the era, including rare photographs and artifacts, many never-before-seen from private collections that are placed in context with more famous photographs from the period.From 1939 to 1945 Since the World War II Start until End. This Book collect all picture dusring the WWII in series of 10 books. This book spreads feature collections of uniforms, weapons, and other equipment. Maps, timelines, and side panels offer an inviting variety of entry point to the huge wealth of information.

Book The National Gallery in Wartime

Download or read book The National Gallery in Wartime written by Suzanne Bosman and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In August 1939 the National Gallery's Collection was in danger. War was imminent, with the grim possibility looming of saturation bombing of London. Days before war was declared, the National Gallery closed its doors to the public and secretly evacuated the paintings. The collection was initially hidden in selected country houses, but later relocated for permanent storage in the cavernous chambers of a disused quarry, deep in the Welsh mountains." "Back in Trafalgar Square, the gallery - now empty - stayed open to house a popular series of music concerts fronted by internationally acclaimed pianist, Myra Hess. Despite significant risk the gallery remained open throughout the Blitz, also opening a canteen and temporary display space, bringing culture and solace to Londoners." "This book brings together previously unseen material from the National Gallery's archive with black and white photographs in an account of how the National Gallery functioned during this eventful period."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Pictures and Diary of a Wartime Artist

Download or read book The Pictures and Diary of a Wartime Artist written by Len Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Len Smith was an accredited war artist in World War One. He would stand in no man's land and sketch enemy positions with little thought for his own safety. His drawings would then be used by Allied Command to decide on their next military course of action. Len also kept detailed notes from the time he signed up, until the end of the war. He then collated the notes he had kept hidden in his puttees into this diary together with his amazing watercolours. It provides a unique and visual insight into WW1. 300+ pages more than 150 illustrations.

Book WWII United States History in Colour Photo Book VOL  3

Download or read book WWII United States History in Colour Photo Book VOL 3 written by Lara Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Photo Book Show Dramatic Tapestry Of The Wartime. Hundreds of images capture fateful moments of triumph and defeat that defined the era, including rare photographs and artifacts, many never-before-seen from private collections that are placed in context with more famous photographs from the period.From 1939 to 1945 Since the World War II Start until End. This Book collect all picture during the WWII in series of 10 books. This book spreads feature collections of uniforms, weapons, and other equipment. Maps, timelines, and side panels offer an inviting variety of entry point to the huge wealth of information.