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Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100486227316
ISBN-139780486227313
eBay Product ID (ePID)252696
Product Key Features
Book TitlePhotographic Sketch Book of the Civil War
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1959
TopicUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), History
IllustratorYes
GenrePhotography, History
AuthorAlexander Gardner, Everett F. Bleiler
Book SeriesCivil War Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width10.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisSecond only to Mathew Brady as the foremost early American photographer was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady's Washington salon and Brady's chief photographer in the field during the early days of the Civil War. Indeed, Gardner -- who later photographed the War independently -- often managed the famous horse-drawn photographic laboratory and took many of the pictures that used to be attributed to Brady. He accompanied the Union troops on their marches, their camps and bivouacs, their battles, and on their many hasty retreats and routs during the early days of the War. In 1866 Alexander Gardner published a very ambitious two-volume work which contained prints of some 100 photographs which he had taken in the field. A list of them reads like a roster of great events and great men: Antietam Bridge under Travel, President Lincoln (and McClellan) at Antietam, Pinkerton and His Agents in the Field, Ruins of Richmond, Libby Prison, McLean's House Where Lee's Surrender Was Signed, Meade's Headquarters at Gettysburg, Battery D, Second U.S. Artillery in Action at Fredericksburg, the Slaughter Pen at Gettysburg, and many others. This publication is now amoung the rarest American books, and is here for the first time republished inexpensively. Gardner's photographs are among the greatest war pictures ever taken and are also among the most prized records of American history. Gardner was quite conscious of recording history, and spared himself no pains or risk to achieve the finest results. His work indicates a technical mastery that now seems incredible when one bears in mind the vicissitudes of collodion applications in the field, wet plates, long exposures, long drying times, imperfect chemicals -- plus enemy bullets around the photographer's ears. It has been said of these photographs: photography today . . . is far easier, but it is no better., One hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken, this collection is also a dramatic record of American history. Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, Lee's surrender at Appomattox, more.
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