Sunday, April 3, 2011

On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War



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Soon after Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Bookwas published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers, then and in subsequent generations, would come to know the war. Gardner's classic also became foundational in the history of American photography, combining, for the first time, words and images in a sophisticated and moving account. This book, written by the art historian Anthony W. Lee and the literary sch... More >>

On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

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