The Absence That Is Present: Civil War Photography. 1862-2015
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2017

In 1862, Alexander Gardner captured some of the best-known photographs of the Civil War at Antietam.Since then his photographs have been part of a varied history cycling from open publicity to obscurity and back again.In recent years, photographers have turned to Gardner's photographs for inspiration when creating new photographs of the Civil War: rephotography.David Levene and Sally Mann are two examples that approach rephotography from different directions.Levene and Mann go to Antietam to pho