USED NOT IN VAIN

Description

“Not in Vain” by Ken Bell. Hardcover.

“Not in Vain” was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1073, and shows a collection of photographs taken partly during the war, and partly 25 years later when Ken Bell returned to the same locations in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

When Canada joined the war against Nazi Germany in 1939, Bell was posted to Ottawa as a public relations photographer. Later, he joined the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit. Along with a number of other photographers, Bell would go on to document Canada’s participation in World War II.

Many of Bell’s photographs were taken in colour though these did not become public until around twenty years later. They are the only surviving colour photographs of the Normandy Landings.

Features:

• 141 pages total
• Hardcover
• many color and black and white photographs