Title: Photography and the American Civil War /
Authors: Rosenheim, Jeff,; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.); New Orleans Museum of Art.
Year: 2013
Subjects: War photography United States.; War photography United States Exhibitions.; United States History Pictorial works.; United States History Exhibitions.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Shadows of ourselves -- The dead of Antietam -- Photography before the war -- Lincoln and the 1860 presidential election -- Secession and Fort Sumter -- Early war portraits -- Missing the picture, Bull Run, 1861-62 -- Gardner and his photographic sketch book -- Ambrotypes and tintypes -- Cartes de visite and other paper prints -- Collecting the wounded -- Barnard and his views of Sherman's campaign -- War's end and Lincoln's assassination -- The slow recovery.