File:Frank Hurley composite image and its components -- fallen comrades.tif

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Three World War I photographs taken by Frank Hurley, two of which contain elements incorporated into the third

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English: A page displaying three World War I photographs, two of which contain elements incorporated into the third, together with notes. The scene is of the morning of 12 October 1917, after the first battle of Paschendaele, with Australian Infantry dead and wounded at a blockhouse near the site of Zonnebeke Railway Station. One of four versions with different "sunburst" formations in the clouds created from originally separate negatives.

Noted Australian photographer Frank Hurley took the component photographs and blended them into the composite image. He was horrified by what he witnessed during the war and sought to portray his disgust and horror in such a way that his audience would feel it too. Since he could not always convey this with one negative, he combined elements of two or more photographs – a technique that was especially popular among professional photographers at the time. Some have considered the practice as an art form; others argued that history demanded the plain, simple truth.

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Date
Source Scan of hard copy image
Author Frank Hurley
Camera location50° 52′ 15.6″ N, 3° 00′ 10.8″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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  • The image was created before 1 January 1955. The Australian Government's authoritative guide to the Copyright Act 1968 (Short Guide to Copyright, November 2016)   states on page 11 that "The term of copyright protection for photographs taken before 1955, regardless of whether the author has since died or is still alive, has expired".
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