![]() Starting in the American Civil War, photographers could claim to have provided the iconic representations of war. ![]() You can’t even tell you’re looking at bodies. “Like a million bloody rugs,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald of the Somme carnage. The picture he took, though, tells almost nothing without a caption. ![]() They could not be rescued yet, and so an anonymous official photographer attached to the Royal Engineers did what he could to record the scene. The lucky ones found shelter in shell holes the rest were left exposed and baking in the sun. Later that hot day, which would become the costliest day in the history of the British military and one of the deadliest single days of combat in any war, the wounded lay stranded in no-man’s-land. on July 1, 1916, line after line of British soldiers weighed down by 70‑plus pounds of equipment trudged straight into German machine-gun fire. ![]() The British photographers were stationed on the front lines of the Somme, ready to capture the “Big Push” as it unfolded. ![]()
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