Many - too many - of the photographs that haunt our memories are war photographs, but none come from World War I. Censorship in the Great War was so stringent that for a time civilian photographers were not permitted at the front on pain of death, a rather effective regulation.

notes in her fine study "The Power of Photography" (Abbeville; 1991)

Great Images of the 20th Century : The Photographs That Define Our Times by Kelly Knauer (Editor), Inc Time

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