Photography and the American Civil War
By: Jeff L. Rosenheim
Contributors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.); New Orleans Museum of Art
Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art publications; Metropolitan Museum of Art publications
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780300191806; 9781588394866
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: War photography; Pictorial works; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 2 through September 2, 2013; the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., from September 27, 2013 through January 5, 2014; and the New Orleans Museum of Art, from January 31 through May 4, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shadows of ourselves; title: The dead of Antietam; title: Photography before the war; title: Lincoln and the 1860 presidential election; title: Secession and Fort Sumter; title: Early war portraits; title: Missing the picture, Bull Run, 1861-62; title: Gardner and his photographic sketch book; title: Ambrotypes and tintypes; title: Cartes de visite and other paper prints; title: Collecting the wounded; title: Barnard and his views of Sherman's campaign; title: War's end and Lincoln's assassination; title: The slow recovery.