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Caffenol is a photographic alternative process whereby phenols, sodium carbonate and optionally vitamin C are used in aqueous solution as a film and print photographic developer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Other basic (as opposed to acidic ) chemicals can be used in place of sodium carbonate; however, sodium carbonate is the most common.
In the 20th century, professional photographers covered all the major conflicts, and many were killed as a consequence, among which was Robert Capa, who covered the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the D-Day landings and the fall of Paris, and conflicts in the 1950s until his death by a landmine in Indochina in May 1954.
World War I very largely confirmed the end of the glorification of war in art, which had been in decline since the end of the previous century. [43] In general, and despite the establishment of large schemes employing official war artists , the most striking art depicting the war is that emphasizing its horror.
Category: War art. 10 languages ... War photography (4 C, 16 P) R. ... War of the Spanish Succession in art (2 P) War of the Three Kingdoms in art (1 C, 2 P)
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War.She is regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash.Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II. A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record.
The word "photography" was created from the Greek roots φωτός (phōtós), genitive of φῶς (phōs), "light" [2] and γραφή (graphé) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", [3] together meaning "drawing with light". [4] Several people may have coined the same new term from these roots independently.
First, art (and, more generally, culture) found itself at the centre of an ideological war. Second, during World War II, many artists found themselves in the most difficult conditions (in an occupied country, in internment camps, in death camps) and their works are a testimony to a powerful "urge to create." Such creative impulse can be ...