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WWI Photographs - Alfieri Picture Services
Description
Alfieri Picture Service was a London firm that produced many unique images of the war. In Australia the firm is best known for producing pictures of the Anzac troops at Gallipoli. This collection of 19 loose photographs, showing the unmechanised side of the early war, are available through the Monash University Research Repository.
They are also represented in the Monash University Library's World War One virtual exhibition.
Jay Winter, Yale University Historian, will deliver a seminar on 'Photographing War' at the Sir Louis Matheson Library on Friday 12th August, 2016.
This seminar explores the way the arrival of the Kodak pocket camera made the censorship of soldiers’ photography a hopeless task. These collections of soldiers’ photographs show many facets of the war hidden by officials and rarely sold by photojournalists. As a result, the global photographic record of the Great War serves as a vast underexploited archive of the face of battle and of the ravages of war.
The Monash University community and members of the public are welcome to attend.
Video description
A selection of World War One images from the Monash University Research Repository
Image One. A French artilleryman makes coffee on his gun in Northern France.
Image Two. General Joffre and President Poincare at the front.
Image Three. British Red Cross car in Belgium covered with snow.
Image Four. A new ambulance outfit now in use by the French.
Image Five. Army Service Corps wagons in a village square in Northern France.
Image Six. The Derby 1915. Owing to the racing authorities having suspended The Derby this year Tommies at Epsom hold a meeting of their own. Photo shows wounded soldiers watching the race from the grandstand.
Image Seven. The fighting in Flanders. French troops passing a sentry in his straw sentry box.
Image Eight. The grave of Austrian officers killed in the re-taking of Belgrade.
Image Nine. British Tommies looking after wounded Belgians on the "Agadir".
Image Ten. On a motor observation lorry in the north of France.
Image Eleven. With the Belgians in the north of France. The ambush.
Image Twelve. French soldiers in the trenches in the north of France.
Image Thirteen. The pirates' first victim. The Norwegian ship "Belridge" torpedoed in the Channel.
Image Fourteen. The new form of Trench with traverses.
Image Fifteen. With the British in the north of France. Clearing the brush.
Image Sixteen. Regimental pets which have been left behind at the zoo while their regiments are at the front.
Image Seventeen. French artillerymen at Ypres.
Image Eighteen. The fight for the sand dunes in the north of France. Belgian soldiers cooking on the sand.
Image Nineteen. The pirates' first victim. The Norwegian ship "Belridge" torpedoed in the Channel.
Further resources
Monash University Research Repository
Monash University Library World War One Virtual Exhibition
Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
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