“Senegalese Soldiers Looting In France” - Backside Description - Original WWI Era Battlefield Photograph
“Senegalese Soldiers Looting In France” - Backside Description - Original WWI Era Battlefield Photograph
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This original WWI photograph shows a glimpse of what a WWI soldier saw on the front lines and deep in the trenches during the Great War. What makes this WWI era photograph so unique is the detailed backside description of the front image. These photographs were produced to show the general public what the condition was like on the frontline. These were patriotic and propaganda pieces. These photographs depict the true horrid and real uncensored conditions many soldiers faced daily on the front lines.
In 1914, as the outbreak of World War I brought mass slaughter to Europe’s battlefields, photo journalism evolved rapidly in the muddy trenches, where 19th-century tactics met 20th-century weapons. Machine guns, airplanes, tanks, flamethrowers, poisonous gas and submarines were widely used for the first time against doomed troops that were sent by their generals into frontal attacks that left millions dead. This unimaginable carnage was witnessed by photographers who for the first time got close enough to the front to document combat, as well as scenes of soldiers at rest and at play.
This WWI photograph would make an amazing addition to any WWI collection!