I don’t think it was like him to have manipulated – to have falsified an image in that way – and one reason I’d say so is: he was simply photographing the place as he found it. I don’t think he had an idea about the symbolic – what later people would say was the symbolic value of the photograph.

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The photographs of the dead don’t occur until a little later, and it’s always of the enemy. At least initially it’s of the enemy – the photographs that are made a couple of years later of the revolt in India – of dead, enemy. Similarly, when Alexander Gardiner is photographing corpses on the field at Gettysburg, they’re the enemy. One doesn’t photograph one’s own dead.