Ernest Brooks was a British photographer, best known for his war photography from the First World War. He was the first official photographer to be appointed by the British military, and produced seve
Brooks c. 1917
Brooks on the Western Front, 1917
A front-line combat photograph: soldiers of the Wiltshire Regiment going "over the top" on 7 August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
Wounded British soldiers and German prisoners heading to the rear during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge (part of the battle of the Somme), 19 July 1916.
War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places. Photographers who participate in this genre may find themselves placed in harm's way, and are sometimes kill
Ernest Brooks (photographer)
…Ernest Brooks (23 February 1876 – 1957) was a British photographer, best known for his war photography from the First World War. He was the first official photographer to be appointed by the British military, and produced several thousand images between…
Bodies on the battlefield at Antietam, 1862, Alexander Gardner
General Wool and staff in the Calle Real, Saltillo, Mexico, taken by an unknown photographer during the Mexican-American war, ca.1847
Captured Sikh guns of the Sikh Empire parked in Ambala Cantonment in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, calotype or daguerreotype by John McCosh, circa April 1849.
Roger Fenton was one of the first war photographers. He captured images of the Crimean War (1853–1856)