The exhibition called WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY on display at the Houston Museum of Art includes 480 objects, including photo albums, original magazines and old cameras, by 280 photographers from 26 countries.
See the evolution of war photography from artfully posed portraits to on-the-go action shots.
The museum caption reads: (Left) The artist Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev the day he went to the front in 1941. (Right) In 1945 when he returned”.
ID Number: P06003.001 Place made: Unknown The photograph was probably taken in Australia, pre-embarkation, sometime between 1915 and 1918. Featured in the Memorial's 2008 exhibition Icon and Archive, the identity of this striking-looking man is not known and the Memorial had a lot of responses from people with possible identifications, none of which have been him. Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions. This photograph is from the Australian War Memorial's collection www.awm.gov.au Persistent URL: cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P06003.001
The never-before-seen images of Western Front troops were uncovered almost a century after they were taken having lay hidden in an attic in a farm house in Vignacourt, northern France.
Faces Of War: 21 Haunting Portraits Of Afghanistan's Refugee Children Living In The Slums Of Islamabad (PICTURES)
7 Battalion, Essex Regiment, attached Rifle Brigade Faces of the First World War The full story is not always known to us. If you know more, please tell us in the comments below. Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War in Lives of the First World War.
It’s the proverbial “thousand-yard stare” that was associated with shell shock in WWI. Today we know it as the beast of PTSD. “Wars damage the civilian socie…
On Armistice Day the Imperial War Museum has made 100 portraits of people who served in the Great War available online
There is a need for "good guys" to man up and show the way for the next generation. Young men need a narrative that they can connect with. They need role models and exemplars that can portray a positi
Photographer Ashley Gilbertson first saw Cpl. Kirk Bosselmann as the archetypal U.S. Marine. “In Fallujah, he was this tobacco-chewin’ hard-ass Marine, scout sniper, the whole […]
This striking portrait is of John Trevallon Mathewson, son of the one of Queensland's most famous photographers.In his book Thomas Mathewson, Father of Photography in Queensland. An Early Pioneer, Photographer,…
Photographer Ashley Gilbertson first saw Cpl. Kirk Bosselmann as the archetypal U.S. Marine. “In Fallujah, he was this tobacco-chewin’ hard-ass Marine, scout sniper, the whole […]
The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase coined to describe the limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier, but the symptom it describes may also be found among vic…
In an effort to convey the horror and humanity of the First World War to a younger generation, the Vimy Foundation undertook a project to colourize hundreds of photographs of Canadian soldiers.
“They often hear people call them heroes, but every one of them will say that they are not a hero, they only did their duty as they were taught — Duty. Honor. Country.”
From US Marines in Korean trenches to Picasso in his studio and Nixon deep in thought, the photojournalist captured the tumult of the 1950s and 1960s
Muhammad Ali was a three-time heavyweight boxing champion with an impressive 56-win record. He was also known for his public stance against the Vietnam War.
“When the war started we were sixteen boys defending the village, but after four years only four of us were left alive,” remembers Ho Cu Chanh, a veteran of the Vietnam War. The aged veteran is one of 29 others photographed and quoted in Dutch photographer Ruben Hamelink’s debut book. In Vietnamese Veterans, the young photographer traveled around Vietnam with an Italian anthropologist seeking out past fighters. Vietnam has fought a war with four countries over the past century: America, China, Cambodia and France.
Exploring the work of exiled Syrian artist Imranovi in the Modern Face of Syria exhibition
A man weeps of despair on the ground during the murderous era of World War I.
Australian digital artist Scadam Photoshops images of historical paintings by reimagining the models as pop culture characters. Faces of popular characters from
A new play called Black Diggers sheds light on a neglected part of Australian history. Here are some of the true stories behind it.
War & Peace Show July 2012
Many times pictures speak louder than stories: by creating a time-lapse portrait series of soldiers before, during and after the war, Lalage Snow reveals more about their psychological drama then their own words could. Titled "We are the not dead", the portraits show an 8 month span in the lives of the British soldiers that were deployed in Afghanistan, and the changes in their eventually weary faces are striking.
