Alleen Vandaag Peter Hebeisen – Gerhard Paul

How to convey the horror of industrialized warfare? How close to get? How much suffering and death to reveal? For his series on the European battlefields of the twentieth century, Swiss photographer Peter Hebeisen (* 1956) took a different approach. Large-format tableaus in the tradition of Romantic painting show Verdun, Stalingrad, and Sarajevo from the per­spective of the general sitting high on his horse and overlooking the scene from a strategic military van­tage point. To convey this view, the camera w…