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Ransoming Mathew Brady

Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Ransoming Mathew Brady written by John Phillips and published by Hudson Hills Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of oils, watercolours, and prose full of wit and wisdom and rich with historical allusion, John Ransom Phillips portrays the complexity of nineteenth-century photographer, Mathew Brady. The photographs Brady made have long served to illustrate an era in American history, most notably his portraits of Abraham Lincoln and the images from the Civil War battlefields he captured. Pairing these photographs with his own work, Phillips explores the career of this artist who wanted to make history: An ambitious half-blind man with blue-tinted glasses, straw hat and duster who had the genius to look beyond his thriving New York portrait studio to the battles of the Civil War and was one of the first photographers to shoot in the open air. Paradoxically, Brady sent assistants to photograph his most famous scenes, the battlefields at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Antietam, instructing them to re-arrange the dead to create images that would enhance public notions about death and dying. AUTHOR: John Ransom Phillips is an artist and author whose work has been exhibited internationally at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art in Chicago; Museo de Arte Moderne in Buenos Aires; the Fundacao de Arte e Cultural de Ubatuba in Sao Paolo, and Zamalek Gallery, Cairo. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has been a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Alan Trachtenberg is The Neil Gray, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University, and the author of 'Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans'(1989). 266 colour & 17 b/w illustrations

Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War, 1861-65 and the Causes that Led Up to the Great Conflict

Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780517225196
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (251 download)

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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 Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1912 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a chronological summary and record of every engagement compiled from the official records of the War Department.

Mathew Brady and the Image of History

Author : Mary Panzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Mathew Brady and the Image of History written by Mary Panzer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking advantage of emerging photographic paper printing techniques to create large-format, classically posed portraits, Brady also collaborated with painters such as G.P.A. Healy and Alonzo Chappel, who used his photographs to complete their own heroically scaled images. Contending that Brady's photographs contribute to an ongoing national interest in the Civil War, Panzer concludes that they continue to function as Brady hoped they would, constructing an idealized history in which fact and memory are intertwined.

Journal of the Civil War Era

Author : William A. Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807852600
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Civil War Era written by William A. Blair and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. Table of Contents for this issue, Volume One, Number Two: volume 1, number 2 June 2011 Table of Contents Articles a. kristen foster "We Are Men!": Frederick Douglass and the Fault Lines of Gendered Citizenship kathryn s. meier "No Place for the Sick": Nature's War on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health in the 1862 Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns brandi c. brimmer "Her Claim for Pension Is Lawful and Just": Representing Black Union Widows in Late-Nineteenth Century North Carolina Review Essay frank towers Partisans, New History, and Modernization: The Historiography of the Civil War's Causes, 1861–2011 Book Reviews Books Received Professional Notes daniel e. sutherland The Seven O'Clock Lecture Notes on Contributors The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.

Mathew Brady's Illustrated History

Author : Random House Value Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517189948
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Mathew Brady's Illustrated History written by Random House Value Publishing and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matthew Brady

Author : Karl Rawdon Von Stieglitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Matthew Brady written by Karl Rawdon Von Stieglitz and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading American Photographs

Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374522490
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Reading American Photographs written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.

Family Life in 19th-Century America

Author : James M. Volo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313081123
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Family Life in 19th-Century America written by James M. Volo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth century families had to deal with enormous changes in almost all of life's categories. The first generation of nineteenth century Americans was generally anxious to remove the Anglo from their Anglo-Americanism. The generation that grew up in Jacksonian America matured during a period of nationalism, egalitarianism, and widespread reformism. Finally, the generation of the pre-war decades was innately diverse in terms of their ethnic backgrounds, employment, social class, education, language, customs, and religion. Americans were acutely aware of the need to create a stable and cohesive society firmly founded on the family and traditional family values. Yet the people of America were among the most mobile and diverse on earth. Geographically, socially, and economically, Americans (and those immigrants who wished to be Americans) were dedicated to change, movement, and progress. This dichotomy between tradition and change may have been the most durable and common of American traits, and it was a difficult quality to circumvent when trying to form a unified national persona. Volumes in the Family Life in America series focus on the day-to-day lives and roles of families throughout history. The roles of all family members are defined and information on daily family life, the role of the family in society, and the ever-changing definition of family are discussed. Discussion of the nuclear family, single parent homes, foster and adoptive families, stepfamilies, and gay and lesbian families are included where appropriate. Topics such as meal planning, homes, entertainment and celebrations, are discussed along with larger social issues that originate in the home like domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and divorce. Ideal for students and general readers alike, books in this series bring the history of everyday people to life.

War Photographs Taken on the Battlefields of the Civil War

Author : Mathew B. Brady
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626363102
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book War Photographs Taken on the Battlefields of the Civil War written by Mathew B. Brady and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fought over the course of four years, the Civil War pitted countrymen against countrymen, North versus South, friend against friend, and brother against brother. The photographs within these pages document the war that united America as one. These rare shots were taken in the middle of the battlefield during the earliest days of photography. Selected from a collection of seven thousand original negatives, these historic photos capture nearly every aspect of Civil War life. Among these photos are images of camps sprawling across acres, soldiers at their battlements, firing of heavy artillery, the aftermath of battle, and the terror that these young men faced. See first-hand of Union and Confederate officers strategizing their next moves, and Abraham Lincoln addressing his Union commanders. Originally released from the private collection of Edward Bailey Eaton in 1907, this edition is a must have for any Civil War buff or historian. No collection can be considered complete without these photographs by Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner, as well as the meticulous passages that put the images in illuminating context.

Civil War Journal

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1418559040
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Journal written by William C. Davis and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 1998-12-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the History Channel documentary series. How the Civil War sparked profound changes in slavery, immigration, women’s roles, journalism, and more. “In many arenas, the Civil War changed things both in military and civilian life,” William C. Davis observes. “The roles in society of women and minorities were altered drastically. Advancements in medicine and technology exerted a profound impact on the future. Industry burgeoned. The reporting of news entered the modern era with the photograph. Culture changed as the complexion of Americans evolved and as war’s wounds imposed lasting divisions upon our society. It ensured at once that future wars would be more terrible, and yet we would be equipped to cope with that terror to come. These are the legacies of the war covered in this volume.” Civil War Journal: The Legacies is the third volume of a three-volume treatment of the Civil War developed from the popular History Channel series Civil War Journal. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, these volumes focus on seldom-told stories of people, places, and events that bring to life the heroic intensity of the Civil War. They portray the human side of the conflict that is frequently overlooked in recounting troop movements and engagements.

Enduring Creation

Author : Nigel Jonathan Spivey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230224
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Enduring Creation written by Nigel Jonathan Spivey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastians pierced with arrows, self-portraits of the aging Rembrandt, and the tortured art of Vincent van Gogh. Exploring the tender, complex rapport between art and pain, Spivey guides us through the twentieth-century photographs of casualties of war, Edvard Munch's The Scream, and back to the recorded horrors of the Holocaust.".

Framing the Victorians

Author : Jennifer Green-Lewis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801432767
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Framing the Victorians written by Jennifer Green-Lewis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of the complex and often conflicting discourse on photography in the nineteenth century, Framing the Victorians traces various descriptions of photography as art, science, magic, testimony, proof, document, record, illusion, and diagnosis. Victorian photography, argues Jennifer Green-Lewis, inspired such universal fascination that even two so self-consciously opposed schools as positivist realism and metaphysical romance claimed it as their own. Photography thus became at once the symbol of the inadequacy of nineteenth-century empiricism and the proof of its totalizing vision. Green-Lewis juxtaposes textual descriptions with pictorial representations of a diverse array of cultural activities from war and law enforcement to novel writing and psychiatry. She compares, for example, the exhibition of Roger Fenton's Crimean War photographs (1855) with W. H. Russell's written accounts of the war published in the Times of London (1884 and 1886). Nineteenth-century photography, she maintains, must be reread in the context of Victorian written texts from and against which it developed. Green-Lewis also draws on works by Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James, as well as published writing by Victorian photographers, in support of her view that photography provides an invaluable model for understanding the act of writing itself. We cannot talk about realism in the nineteenth century without talking about visuality, claims Green-Lewis, and Framing the Victorians explores the connections.

Photography and Doubt

Author : Sabine T. Kriebel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317427408
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Photography and Doubt written by Sabine T. Kriebel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen photography’s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies soon thereafter, scholars have been asking who and what built this understanding of the medium in the first place. Photography and Doubt reflects on this interest in photography’s referential power by discussing it in rigorously historical terms. How was the understanding of photographic realism cultivated in the first place? What do cases of staged and manipulated photography reveal about that realism’s hold on audiences across the medium’s history? Have doubts about photography’s testimonial power stimulated as much knowledge as its realism? Edited by Sabine T. Kriebel and Andrés Mario Zervigón, Photography and Doubt is the first multi-authored collection specifically designed to explore these questions. Its 13 original essays, illustrated with 73 color images, explore cases when the link between the photographic image and its referent was placed under stress, and when photography was as attuned to its myth-making capabilities as to its claims to authenticity. Photography and Doubt will serve as a valuable resource for students and scholars in art history, visual and media studies, philosophy, and the history of science and technology.

Department and Foreign Service Series

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Department and Foreign Service Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eyewitness

Author : Richard Lacayo
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness written by Richard Lacayo and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1995 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of 150 years worth of international photojournalism.

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

Author : Jacqueline Jones
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465021107
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow written by Jacqueline Jones and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common purpose with wives and mothers of all classes. In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to the ongoing fight for civil rights.

Who's Who in American History

Author : John M. Thompson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426218346
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Who's Who in American History written by John M. Thompson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful family reference from National Geographic tells the story of America through its presidents, revolutionaries, visionaries, inventors, entertainers--and even its most notorious villains. Far more than an encyclopedia, this treasury tells the rich stories of the people who made America's history--and adds context with lush photographs, illustrations, timelines, artifacts, and more. Beginning with pre-colonial America and continuing through today, this beautifully illustrated book details the fascinating lives of the men and women who helped build the story of our nation. Arranged chronologically, it features more than 400 entries illustrated with lavish four-color photography and elegant illustrations. Intriguing stories and historical maps provide additional context in this comprehensive and enlightening look at America's storied past.