[ WAR BIRDS + FRIENDS ]

In the First and Second World Wars, armies on all sides used carrier pigeons as a means of communications, reconnaissance, and intelligence. There was also a booming business in gas masks for children and animals. This series plays with archival images of children and animals within various apparatus of wartime.

War Birds No. 3

April 6, 2010
War Birds No. 3

Pigeons can recognize themselves in mirrors. Humans think we can as well, but it’s possible that we recognize what we look like, but not who we are. This battlefield photograph from the National Archive of the Netherlands documents a British soldier releasing a carrier pigeon from a tank on the Western Front in France....
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