Missing of the Somme

By Wade Davis, Geoff Dyer

Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, campaigns, World War, 1914-1918, World war, 1914-1918, art and the war, Monuments, World war, 1914-1918, france, Military campaigns, War memorials, Art and the war, Somme, 1st battle of the, france, 1916, Campaigns

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.