二手書博民逛書店Circumstances罕見Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885Y360448 Michael Barnholden Talon Books,Canada ISBN:9780889226210 出版2010

作 者：Michael Barnholden

出 版 社：Talon Books,Canada

出版時間：2010-02

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On Friday, April 24, 1885, Captain James Peters took the world's first battlefield photographs under fire at the battle of Fish Creek in the Canadian Northwest Territory of Saskatchewan. As Captain of the Royal Canadian Artillery's "A" Battery--part of the North West Field Force--he subsequently managed to expose over seventy glass plates for the duration of the battles at Duck Lake and Batoche as well, many of them again during combat with the enemy, both on the ground and on horseback. In addition to his photographic documentation of the "Northwest Rebellion" he was also a war correspondent for the Quebec Morning Chronicle. His regular dispatches, together with his images, serve as a pioneering addition to the history of war correspondents and are presented here for the first time in their entirety. This watershed in the documentation of history was created by photographic technology, advanced to the point where "naturalist" or "detective" cameras, which came on the market in 1883, could be carried...

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