Which was the first war in which photography was employed?
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Cameras saw limited use in the Mexican War and in Britain's Crimean War, but their first significant use came during the American Civil War.
Matthew Brady and his skilled assistants, among them Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan, photographed not only the generals and their foot soldiers but also the battlefields strewn with the human debris of death—forever changing the way we view war.
During the Civil War, however, photography was used only for documenting the remains of war; battlefields, for instance, and troops camping, NOT actual action. The Franco-Prussian War was the first in which an actual ongoing battle was photographed.
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There is an article on this very subject. (http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/06/12/how-early-photographers-captured-historys-first-images-of-war/). But we don't need to believe there were no other war photos.
Since daguerreotype invention in 1839 there were the following wars in which Europeans participated:
source: list of wars from wiki
Russian Conquest of Bukhara - from 1842
Franco-Moroccan War - 1844
Franco-Tahitian War - from 1844
First Anglo-Sikh War - 1845-46
Hutt Valley Campaign - 1846 (Britain) For that we can see the photo of the governor George Grey who initiated the war
- Galician slaughter - 1846 (Austria)
- Dutch intervention in Northern Bali 1846
- Seventh Xhosa War - 1846-47 (Britain)
- Second Carlist War - 1846-49 (Spain)
- Sonderbund War - 1847 (Swiss)
There are photos from the next one - Mexican war - 1848
First acknowledged war photographer, according to the article mentioned, is Carol Popp de Szathmari, Hungarian. After him there started French photographer Ernest Eduard de Caranza and British photographer Roger Fenton, Crimean war http://www.allworldwars.com/Crimean-War-Photographs-by-Roger-Fenton-1855.html
I have found an even earlier war photographer. "John McCosh, a surgeon in the Bengal Army, is considered by some historians to be the first war photographer known by name. He produced a series of photographs documenting the Second Anglo-Sikh War, from 1848–49". There was an exhibition about him in London in 2009.
There is one English photo of Afghan soldiers of 1843, but it is an inscenated one, they are really actors.
There is a picture of New Hampshire Volunteer Militia on parade in 1846. I have found more photos of soldiers from 1846, but the date was unsure for them. This seems to be the oldest military photo.
The problem is that even if we'll find a photo of earlier times, the most probably we won't recognize it as a photo, for they were of very low quality and were drawn on for improvement of the image quality.
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