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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts shows four centuries of war images from their permanent collection. As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War goes from 1520 to 1920, and gives powerful witness to the brutality of war, and how artforms have reflected it.


Roger Fenton, The Photographer's Van with Marcus Sparling in the Crimea, 1855. Salt print from wet-collodion-on-glass negative, image: 6 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.
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Pictures from the Crimean War — Russia's mid-1850s conflict on the peninsula with Britain, France and others — have particular resonance for today. Decades before iPhones and TV cameras, Roger Fenton documented the struggle, as early battlefield photographers began going to war.

Before them, it was up to artists to show what war was like. Winslow Homer is probably best known for his magnificent 19th century land and seascapes. But during the Civil War, Harper's Weekly magazine sent him — then a staff illustrator — to be a war artist, embedded at the front with the Union army. Homer was one of 30 artist-reporters to cover that conflict."...
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SrA Ronald Moore
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Honorable share indeed !
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