A member of the Magnum Photos Agency since 1994, De Keyzer likes to tackle large-scale projects that explore the dynamics of power and politics. Several years ago Carl De Keyzer set himself a daunting task - to track down thousands of glass plate negatives of photographs taken during the First World War with the goal of rephotographing and thus preserving the old images. The First World War needs to get dangerous again. … The horror has become kitsch, a product. The shock is not the shock of the new so much as the shock of the old made new - and the new made suddenly old.Ĭan the First World War still disturb us? Can a war that has been caught in pictures still affect us, dislocate us? Perhaps it has been “remembered to death.” Commemoration has become a hobby. SlideshowSaint Martin’s Basilica, Halle, 1918. SlideshowView of Tournai’s main square, 1918. SlideshowCathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula, Brussels, 1918. SlideshowResearch service at work in the city hall, Lyon. SlideshowDisplay of kit and utensils for the troops in a factory, Lyon. SlideshowWomen checking munitions in the factory in Saint-Etienne, 1916. SlideshowWomen making 75mm shells on the assembly line in the factory in Saint-Chamond, 1916.

SlideshowMen stacking copper grenade shells, Lyon. The submarine-minelayer hit a sandbank on the Wissant coast in the night of July 26 and 27, 1917, while on an extermination mission. SlideshowNaval lieutenant Georg Gerth’s German UC-61. SlideshowGerman and French soldiers wounded during an attack and waiting to be evacuated to Châlons, 1915. In the background: a group of mules crossing the forest of Trou-Bricot, carrying provisions for the machine-gun posts, 1915. SlideshowSoldiers collecting German munitions from the battlefield. SlideshowSoldier next to a former German shelter (made of tree trunks), in the foreground an old sewing machine.

SlideshowIn October 1917, eleven German zeppelins lost their way above French territory.

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