Heroic War Painting and Early War Photography



Unit 1
Painting War
Scotland for Ever
Geoff Dyer on Gassed
The Charge of the Light Brigade
William Howell Russell's report
in 'The Times'

Dulce et Decorum Est
Baron Gros and Matthew Brady
Dyer on War Photos

Unit 2

 


Baron Gros, 1808 (painting depicts the Battle of Eylau, 1807)

How do these images present different images of war?
What do they pick out to notice and record? What do they want you to notice about the battle - you, who were not there. What in the image has an effect?
How has the image been 'composed'?What makes each image 'real'?

The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863