At the height of the Great War, as many as 12,000 still photographs were taken every day, and each shot—whether taken by an official military photographer of the Signal Corps or by a private photographer with a government permit—had to pass the censorship standards set by the newly created Committee on Public Information (CPI). Photographs of the war dead were prohibited, as were images of military formations, war …
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