Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris Chen wrote: > I don't know whether they're "misconceptions" so much > as the fact that our "modern memory" (to quote > Fussell) of the Great War is colored by the > trenchantly anti-war art & literature that came out > it. HOwever, I agree that many people today seem to > forget how much popular support there was for fighting > WWI (in the same way that people forget how much > dissension & division existed during WWII). I don't think that there was much dissension and division after Pearl Harbor. > > As to photography during WWI, to bring things sort of > back on-topic, were there many cameras & films > available @ the time that could have captured > battlefield action? I'm thinking that much of the > available equipment was too big & cumbersome & the > films (or plates) too slow. > > Chris > -------------- - -- Jim - http://www.hemenway.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html