Photographer

An official French army photographer looking for a place to install his apparatus
Picture made in the ruins of Reims, Northern France, 1917

Documenting Destruction Through Official War Photography

An official French army photographer searches for a suitable position among the ruins of Reims in 1917. The scene reveals how photographers worked inside damaged cities to create the visual record through which later generations would remember the war.

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