War Photography, published by 5 Continents Editions in 2004, considers how the camera entered the visual history of modern conflict. Drawn from the Musée d’Orsay collection and written by Joëlle Bolloch, the book brings together photographs associated with the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the First World War. Its subject is not war as spectacle alone, but the changing conditions under which war could be pictured and subsequently understood.

The historical sequence is shaped by technology as much as by military history. Early photographic processes imposed practical limits on what could be recorded, helping determine which moments appeared before or after battle. As cameras became more adaptable, the field of view widened: images could be made from the air, while soldiers themselves also became picture-makers. The book therefore attends to changing vantage points and forms of authorship without reducing this history to a single photographer’s vision.

That breadth gives the volume its particular value for collectors of photobooks and photographic history. It presents war photography as a record shaped by equipment, access, circumstance, and institutional memory, while placing several major conflicts within one compact historical framework. The Musée d’Orsay context further positions the photographs within a museum collection rather than treating them simply as reportage. At 96 pages, in a 16 × 16 cm English-language softcover edition, it is a concise study whose importance lies in the clarity of its historical subject and the range of photographic viewpoints it brings into relation.