Photographer: Michael Joseph
Date: 1994
Image: W: 355 mm H: 235 mm
Paper: w: 405 mm h: 305 mm
The stones mark the thousands of soldiers that lost their lives during the war. The daisies in the foreground and several other plants make the picture more interesting.
Picture taken during a french trip, image created in the photographer’s darkroom in Clapham and signed in the strip beneath the image.
BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY, which was completed in 1952, contains 4,144 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 338 of them unidentified. There are also over 500 war graves of other nationalities, the majority German.
Sold as seen in photos.
