Witnessing 100 Years of War (Complete 4 Volumes)

Author: None
Publisher: Guangdong Tourism Press
Publication Date: 2001-07-01
Features: We express our gratitude to those famous and unknown photographers who risked their lives for the sake of capturing moments. When history placed them in the midst of war, driven by responsibility or mere impulse, they raised their cameras. In the instant they pressed the shutter, history was miraculously frozen. Their actions left behind vivid scenes that could be repeatedly witnessed and carefully examined, fixing history more clearly within the frame of the camera and then layer by layer in the developer. On the swiftly rotating printing presses, scenes of war were replicated in great numbers, transforming an irreproducible historical moment into an almost exact replica for those far from the scene. It seems humanity has captured the flow of time and the movement of space. Thus, a century later, on some afternoon or evening, we open this book and once again witness the war of a century ago. As we quietly flip through these heart-stirring scenes of war, we know for certain that the war has disappeared. Yet as we re-experience those historical moments, we feel as if the war is unfolding before our very eyes.，：？？？ Later generations will have countless questions, but history has passed, leaving only these unchanging photographs to bear witness to subsequent witnesses. It took nearly a year to gather thousands of these war images and compile a book of a century's worth of war writings. We feel a sense of exhaustion and satisfaction akin to giving birth, as this century-long war scroll preserved by countless witnesses is reborn in our minds and hands, entering our lives and encountering readers with awareness of history and war. It will be activated as they witness it, the war hidden within the photographs roaring back to life through the gaze of the witnesses, entering their lives and thoughts, entering the world of this very moment, and rewriting history for new witnesses, igniting new impulses for photography in them. And us? We simply want to say: To bid farewell to war, let us once again witness this century of cruel and exhilarating war!