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(67) L.572 - Anti-aircraft guns which brought down a huge German aeroplane in France
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (67) L.572 - Anti-aircraft guns which brought down a huge German aeroplane in France |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548698 |
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| Description | Anti-aircraft gun, France, during World War I. This image is rather arresting due to the gun barrel silhouetted against the barren landscape. There is also strong sunlight falling across parts of the image. This photograph is one in a sequence which focuses on wrecked enemy aircraft. The men in this scene are all intent on their jobs and there is an atmosphere of studied concentration present. Anti-aircraft guns were not all that successful at this period as it is was difficult to sight planes which moved three-dimensionally in the sky. Telescopes were used to aid this process but proper systems were not developed until the inter-war years. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Anti-aircraft guns which brought down a huge German aeroplane in France.'] |
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| Description | Formerly a photographer with the 'Daily Mirror’, a newspaper which led the field in pictorial journalism, McLellan was appointed as an official war photographer in December 1917 along with Tom Aitken whose work also features in this collection. McLellan is especially noted for his work capturing the huge scale of operations on the Front. McLellan was one of five official photographers working on the Western Front, for the propaganda department during the last two years of the war. The photographers were driven to the site the authorities wanted them to photograph, which meant that most of their material was also largely censored. This did not, however, mean that the photographer did not get to know the people in the picture. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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