Photography and the American Civil War / Jeff L. Rosenheim.

Published to coincide with the 150th anniverary of the battle of Gettysburg, features both familiar and rarely seen Civil War images from such photographers as George Barnard, Mathew Brady, and Timothy O'Sullivan.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenheim, Jeff (Author)
Corporate Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.)
New Orleans Museum of Art
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2013]
Subjects:
War photography > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Exhibitions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Pictorial works.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:vii, 277 pages : illustrations (some colored) ; 24 x 29 cm
Format: Book
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.