The missing of the Somme

Description:

'Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him. A photograph from the war, is also a photograph of the way the war will be remembered. It is a photograph of the future, of the future's view of the past. We will remember them' Relying more on personal impressions than systematic analysis, Geoff Dyer weaves a network of myth and memory that illuminates our own relation to the past.

subjects: Art and the war,  Campaigns,  Monuments,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Moral and ethical aspects of World War, 1914-1918,  Public opinion,  Soldiers' monuments,  Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916,  Somme, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918,  War memorials,  World War, 1914-1918,  World war, 1914-1918, influence,  World war, 1914-1918, art and the war,  World war, 1914-1918, campaigns,  World war, 1914-1918, france,  Military campaigns,  Causes,  Psychological aspects

Places: Europe,  France