Publisher/Seuil

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"La guerre d'Algérie : vue par un appelé du contingent" (The Algerian War: Seen Through the Eyes of a Conscript) is a photobook by French photographer Marc Garranger (1935-2020). Garranger was conscripted into the French army and sent to Algeria in 1960, where he served until 1962, while photographing the country. This book is the first edition of his extensive records, published by Seuil in 1984, more than 20 years after the end of the war. It calmly captures not only battles and military operations, but also the daily lives of people caught in the midst of the colonial war—French soldiers, prisoners of war, villagers, and more—from the perspective of someone serving in the war. Garranger was ordered by the military to photograph Algerian women for the creation of identification cards, and his frontal portraits of women whose veils were forcibly removed later became widely known as one of his signature works. His stance of using the camera as a means of expressing his dissent and testifying is consistent throughout this book. This book, which includes a foreword by the philosopher Francis Janson, who supported the Algerian independence movement, is important not only for its history of photography but also for understanding French colonialism and the Algerian War.