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Kerr Eby
Shadows, 1936
Eby served in the US Army in 1917, designing defensive camouflage for soldiers and artillery along the Western Front. Witnessing the drudgery and intolerable conditions of the trenches -- as well as brutal combat -- Eby quickly became disenchanted with war.
Here, Eby recollects an ordinary moment: a column of American doughboys (wearing uniform circular steel helmets) march wearily through ruins, under the cover of night.
In 1936, Eby reproduced this etching in WAR, a portfolio drawn from his "indelible impressions of war" dedicated to "those who gave their lives for an idea ... who never came back." |