Albert A. Denzler

Crossroads Crimea Albert A. Denzler

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Brutus, Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3 William Shakespeare In his rich and fulfilling life, Reinhard's "tidal wave" was his camera, with which he documented all he saw in a war he was forced to take part in. His pictures are not those of a war correspondent, but of a photographer interested in people and their abodes. His "fortune" is based on the enrichment he reaped and gave to everybody he ever met in the three years he sojourned in this beautiful but tragic land. The author has built a story around these pictures from three different points of view.