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The Years Between—Burma Front 那些年間──緬甸前線
1944
Self-taught in photography, Cecil Beaton was a photographer for renowned fashion magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue, before he was hired by the British Ministry of Information to produce propaganda images during the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1945, he took more than seven thousand photographs throughout Britain, the Middle East, India, China, and Burma, capturing scenes of devastation caused by the war and images of leaders, soldiers, and civilians. Unlike other war photographs at the time that depict horrid frontline conditions, this image of school children napping in a classroom in Burma evokes a sense of peace and serenity that is in direct antithesis to the brutal violence of the period.
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