The Montage
[...]composites featuring portraits of generals, admirals and wartime political leaders are dismissed as "fillers" used to round out photo albums during the war period. The juxtaposition of high-profile statesmen and officers with citizen soldiers afforded ordinary Americans a glimpse of i...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Military Images 2021-01, Vol.39 (1), p.66-69 |
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Zusammenfassung: | [...]composites featuring portraits of generals, admirals and wartime political leaders are dismissed as "fillers" used to round out photo albums during the war period. The juxtaposition of high-profile statesmen and officers with citizen soldiers afforded ordinary Americans a glimpse of influential men in the same context as their fathers, husbands and sons. Montages showing navy admirals and army corps and division level commanding generals were of interest to seamen, officers and soldiers who rarely if ever glimpsed these commanders on ship decks or battlefields. |
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ISSN: | 1040-4961 |