Shooting
Range
27.06.2014
01.02.2015
Photography and The Great War
The 'Great War' was the first large-scale conflict that was recorded on celluloid and film. The fledgling media appeared to have unprecedented powers as the all-seeing eye, a reminder, but also as a weapon. Images not only chronicle a conflict, they also play a crucial role in it. Shooting Range highlights the way in which this happened in a conflict that kept the world in its grip for four years.
FoMu shows how still image was used in newspapers, magazines, postcards or for military purposes. Propaganda and anti-war films also serve to widen the concept of this world conflict. FoMu does not only show historical documents in their original form. The book Shooting Range. Photography and The Great War, published by MER, is for sale in the FOMU shop.
Curators: Inge Henneman, Rein Deslé & Maureen Magerman
Image: An official photographer working for the Australian Imperial Force, Captain Herbert F Baldwin, looking down at the viewing screen of a single lens reflex camera fitted with an extra long lens on the Western Front, Imperial War Museum