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Book Synopsis Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by : Alexander Gardner
Download or read book Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War written by Alexander Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs taken in the field provide an extraordinary commentary upon the Civil War
Book Synopsis Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War, 1861-1865 by : Alexander Gardner
Download or read book Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War, 1861-1865 written by Alexander Gardner and published by Delano Greenridge Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains one hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken. Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and more. It became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This classic also became foundational in the history of American photography, combining, for the first time, words and images in a sophisticated and moving account.
Download or read book Witness to an Era written by Mark Katz and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Gardner's photographs are among the most memorable images of the Civil War, and they fill this powerful biography, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History. "This album of Gardner's work is nothing less than sensational " -- "Booklist"
Download or read book Elevate the Masses written by Makeda Best and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which he was involved in the international workers’ rights movement. Tying Gardner’s photographic storytelling to his transatlantic reform activities, this book expands our understanding of Gardner’s career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by situating his photographic production within the era’s discourse on social and political reform. Drawing on previously unknown primary sources and original close readings, Makeda Best reveals how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and photography in the United States shared an ideological foundation. She reads his Photographic Sketch Book of the War as a politically motivated project, rooted in Gardner’s Chartist and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how its treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with the harm that the institution posed to the United States’ reputation as a model democracy. Best shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated Northern labor communities and elevated white immigrant workers, despite the industrialization that degraded them. She concludes with a discussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American national infrastructure in which photographers and photography played an integral role. Original and compelling, this reconsideration of Gardner’s work expands the contribution of Civil War photography beyond the immediate narrative of the war to comprehend its relation to the vigorous international debates about democracy, industrialization, and the rights of citizens. Scholars working at the intersection of photography, cultural history, and social reform in the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic will find Best’s work invaluable to their own research.
Book Synopsis On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by : Anthony W. Lee
Download or read book On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War written by Anthony W. Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lee and Young have admirably elucidated this foundational volume in the history of American photography by developing references that emerge from prior readings of these images, as well as thoughtfully producing new ways of seeing the landscapes Gardner presents. The book makes available to a wide audience one of the most important photographic records of any war and certainly the most interesting visual record of the American Civil War. This is superior scholarship."—Shirley Samuels, author of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War "Anthony Lee and Elizabeth Young's deceptively slim volume is a complex, enlightening, and elegant study of a significant Civil War-era document that also greatly enhances our understanding of nineteenth-century visual culture. The analysis and format of this collaborative effort will serve as a model for cultural scholarship for years to come."—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America "In this beautifully written analysis of one of the most important works of nineteenth-century American photography, Lee and Young restore Gardner's Sketch Book to its rightful place as a key document of American history. At once a report of a newsworthy event and a meditation on its historical meaning, Gardner's album is less unmediated reportage than a carefully constructed argument. In clear, lucid prose, Lee and Young help us understand just how Gardner made this work that helped fix the Civil War in American memory."—Martha A. Sandweiss, author of Print the Legend: Photography and the American West
Book Synopsis Photography and the American Civil War by : Jeff L. Rosenheim
Download or read book Photography and the American Civil War written by Jeff L. Rosenheim and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the 150th anniverary of the battle of Gettysburg, features both familiar and rarely seen Civil War images from such photographers as George Barnard, Mathew Brady, and Timothy O'Sullivan.
Download or read book Mathew Brady written by Robert Wilson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the “father of American photography.” Mathew Brady's attention to detail, flair for composition, and technical mastery helped establish the photograph as a thing of value. In the 1840s and '50s, “Brady of Broadway” photographed such dignitaries as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Horace Greeley, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind. But it was during the Civil War that Brady's photography became an epochal part of American history. The Civil War was the first war in history to leave a detailed photographic record, and Brady knew better than anyone the dual power of the camera to record and excite, to stop a moment in time and preserve it. More than ten thousand war images are attributed to the Brady studio. But as Wilson shows, while Brady himself accompanied the Union army to the first major battle at Bull Run, he was so shaken by the experience that throughout the rest of the war he rarely visited battlefields except well before or after a major battle, instead sending teams of photographers to the front. Mathew Brady is a gracefully written and beautifully illustrated biography of an American legend-a businessman, a suave promoter, a celebrated portrait artist, and, most important, a historian who chronicled America during the gravest moments of the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis The Civil War and American Art by : Eleanor Jones Harvey
Download or read book The Civil War and American Art written by Eleanor Jones Harvey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the best artwork created before, during and following the Civil War, in the years between 1859 and 1876, along with extensive quotations from men and women alive during the war years and text by literary figures, including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. 15,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis Weegee and Naked City by : Anthony W. Lee
Download or read book Weegee and Naked City written by Anthony W. Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “While Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Alfred Steiglitz photographed New York's sleek skyscrapers, Arthur Fellig (called Weegee) documented the seamy underside of depression-era New York. In this extraordinary book, Richard Meyer and Anthony Lee tell a gripping tale, filled with historical detail about Weegee's transformation from freelance newspaper photographer to fine artist with the publication of his enormously successful book Naked City, in 1945.”—Cécile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s “Lee and Meyer return Weegee to his 'working world' by exploring the multiple contexts of his production-the Photo League, the tabloids, the exhibition galleries, and the book market. The volume adds an important dimension to our understanding of how Weegee straddled the worlds of popular culture, photojournalism, and left politics."—Miles Orvell, author of American Photography and John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II (UC Press) “Groundbreaking. Anthony Lee and Richard Meyer delve deeply into a rich archive of media and exhibition history, criticism, and biography to arrive at original interpretations of the most enigmatic photographer in modern visual and print culture.”—Jordana Mendelson, author of Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929-1939
Book Synopsis Lens of War by : James Matthew Gallman
Download or read book Lens of War written by James Matthew Gallman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of essays by twenty-seven historians of the Civil War describes a wide array of the war's photographs, examining them in unfamiliar ways.
Book Synopsis Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War by : Alexander Gardner
Download or read book Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War written by Alexander Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War, 1861-65, and the Causes that Led Up to the Great Conflict by : Benson John Lossing
Download or read book Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War, 1861-65, and the Causes that Led Up to the Great Conflict written by Benson John Lossing and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1994 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive narrative and collection of photographs of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Gettysburg by : William A. Frassanito
Download or read book Gettysburg written by William A. Frassanito and published by Thomas Publications (PA). This book was released on 1975 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique example of photographic detective work in which the famous battle is re-created almost as if it were a contemporary news event. The reader is transported to the battlefield by the photographs and through the analysis of the photographs to the battle itself. We watch it unfold, action by action. In meticulous close-up fashion, with documentary force, we see the terrible encounters of men at war. - Publisher.
Book Synopsis Shooting Lincoln by : Nicholas J.C. Pistor
Download or read book Shooting Lincoln written by Nicholas J.C. Pistor and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They took the most memorable photographs of the Civil War. Now their long rivalry was about to climax with the spilled blood of an American president--an event that would usher in a new age of modern media. Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. With their photographs they brought the Civil War -- and all of its terrible suffering -- into Northern living rooms. By the end of the war, they were locked in fierce competition. And when the biggest story of the century happened--the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--their paparazzi-like competition intensified. Brady, nearly blind and hoping to rekindle his wartime photographic magic, and Gardner, his former understudy, raced against each other to the theater where Lincoln was shot, to the autopsy table where Booth was identified, and to the gallows where the conspirators were hanged. Whoever could take the most sensational -- or ghastly -- photograph would achieve lasting camera-lens fame. Compelling and riveting, Shooting Lincoln tells the astonishing, behind-the-photographs story of these two media pioneers who raced to "shoot" the late president and the condemned conspirators. The photos they took electrified the country, fed America's growing appetite for tabloid-style sensationalism in the news, and built the media we know today.
Book Synopsis Alexander Gardner by : Jane Lee Aspinwall
Download or read book Alexander Gardner written by Jane Lee Aspinwall and published by Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse into the development of the American West through startling photographs of the frontier landscape and the rich culture of American Indian tribes Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian County. In 1867, after joining the survey team for what became the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Gardner photographed the path of the proposed extension, emphasizing the ease of future railroad construction and economic development, while including studies of American Indians and settlements along the way. The following year, Gardner recorded peace talks with Indian tribes at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Distinctly sympathetic to the plight of the American Indian, Gardner made candid documentation of individual chiefs, their encampments and daily life, burial trees, and the peace proceedings themselves. With a full catalogue raisonné of these two rare series, Alexander Gardner offers a complete visual index of these remarkable photographs, made at a critical moment in the history of the American West. Distributed for the Hall Family Foundation and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (07/25/14-01/11/15)
Book Synopsis Photo by Brady by : Jennifer Armstrong
Download or read book Photo by Brady written by Jennifer Armstrong and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the Civil War through the eyes of photographer Mathew Brady and other field photographers as they record a brutal and deadly time.
Download or read book Eyes of Time written by Marianne Fulton and published by New York Graphic Society. This book was released on 1988 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the influence of journalistic photography on the world, from its beginnings in 1839 to the present, and discusses how it both reflected and changed American civilization and history
