Photography and the American Civil War
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Photography and the American Civil War
Metropolitan Museum of Art , Distributed by Yale University Press, c2013
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Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Apr. 2-Sept. 2, 2013; the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., Sept. 27, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014; the New Orleans Museum of Art, Jan. 31-May 4, 2014
Bibliography: p. 250-251
Includes index
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This eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to war
Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation's deadliest war. If the "War Between the States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also a watershed in photographic history, as the camera recorded the epic, heartbreaking narrative from beginning to end-providing those on the home front, for the first time, with immediate visual access to the horrors of the battlefield.
Photography and the American Civil War features both familiar and rarely seen images that include haunting battlefield landscapes strewn with bodies, studio portraits of armed Confederate and Union soldiers (sometimes in the same family) preparing to meet their destiny, rare multi-panel panoramas of Gettysburg and Richmond, languorous camp scenes showing exhausted troops in repose, diagnostic medical studies of wounded soldiers who survived the war's last bloody battles, and portraits of both Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg (1863), this beautifully produced book features Civil War photographs by George Barnard, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, and many others.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art(04/01/13-09/02/13)
The Gibbes Museum of Art
(09/27/13-01/05/14)
New Orleans Museum of Art
(01/31/14-05/04/14)
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