Jane Alden Stevens

[1] Following her graduation magna cum laude from St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., with a BA in 19th-century European Studies.

She traveled and lived in Germany for a number of years teaching English as a second language and working as a tour guide.

Stevens mostly used the Pinoramic 120, the Hasselblad and the Noblex Pro 6/150U cameras to capture what she was looking for in terms of depth-of-field, scope of the scene, and how close she wanted to get for certain shots.

[5] This documented the war's lasting impact in large black-and-white images that included destruction still visible in barraged, upended, pockmarked fields; abandoned towns that were never rebuilt; mementos left by families who still make pilgrimages to World War I cemeteries and sculptures that record unhealed grief.

Stevens made five two-week trips to 189 sites and a selection of her photos was published in Tears of Stone: World War I Remembered.