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Editorial: 1928, 1928
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Librería: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Reino UnidoPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Añadir al carritoAn album, signed twice by the editor and photographer W. Donald Wise on the introductory leaf, pairing photographs of 100 battlefield scenes of 1918 with the same locations in 1928, commemorating a decade since the end of the war. Hise, of Salem, Ohio, "went to France with the A.E.F. and when the American Army gave up its privat…e battle with the franc he stayed on. For nine years he has been taking before-and-after pictures of the battlefields" (Brooklyn Daily Times, 5 April 1929). In his introduction, he writes "This albumn [sic] has been edited and issued with two ideas predominating: one, to present a comprehensive photographic survey of the battle fields of France and Belgium in their devastated state of 1918; two, to visualize the stupendous reconstruction work accomplished Ten Years After in these same regions. In making the present day photographs special care was taken by the editor to find the exact location of the war scene." "These two hundred photographs cover principally the battle fields where the American Expeditionary Forces fought, such as the Marne, Oiuse-Aisne, St. Mihiel, Flanders Fields, the Somme and the Argonne. But others include some French and British sectors where American soldiers were in training or on detached service. They are shown in sequence of battles from town to town as our men advanced and therefore constitute a complete sketch of the American effort concurrently with the French restoration ten years later." The contrasting images starkly reveal the scale of the destruction and the work done to repair the devastation. They demonstrate the rapid rebuilding of places (sometimes in the old style, sometimes entirely anew), the transformation of provisional and rudimentary graves into well-kept military cemeteries, the sprouting of memorials, and the forests reclaiming the trenches. The typed captions describe the scenes, including the military manoeuvres and encampments, and the prior and current state of the locations. The final photograph shows the American Suresnes Cemetery near Paris. The photograph album was evidently produced in a small run - we trace two at auction, Heritage 2009 and Waverly 1994; the former was this copy, the latter possibly so. None could be traced in institutions. Most of the photographs, as far as we can determine, are otherwise unpublished. Oblong quarto (329 x 232 mm). With 201 black and white photographs (209 x 154 mm), each with a typed caption, mounted on grey card leaves, prefaced with an introductory text leaf. Original brown morocco. Restored at extremities. Slight rubbing at extremities, repair to first leaf fore edge, all photographs present and sharp. In very good condition.
