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29%OFFJeff L. Rosenheim - Photography and the American Civil War - 9780300191806 - V9780300191806
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Photography and the American Civil War

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Description for Photography and the American Civil War Hardback. This eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to war Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJCP; AJCR; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 292 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1832.

This eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to war

Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation’s deadliest war. 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 ... Read more

Photography and the American Civil War features both familiar and rarely seen images that include haunting battlefield landscapes strewn with bodies, studio portraits of armed Confederate and Union soldiers (sometimes in the same family) preparing to meet their destiny, rare multi-panel panoramas of Gettysburg and Richmond, languorous camp scenes showing exhausted troops in repose, diagnostic medical studies of wounded soldiers who survived the war’s last bloody battles, and portraits of both Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg (1863), this beautifully produced book features Civil War photographs by George Barnard, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O’Sullivan, and many others.



Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press


Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art(04/01/13–09/02/13)

The Gibbes Museum of Art
(09/27/13–01/05/14)

New Orleans Museum of Art
(01/31/14–05/04/14)

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Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Condition
New
Weight
1831 g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300191806
SKU
V9780300191806
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About Jeff L. Rosenheim
Jeff Rosenheim is curator in charge in the department of photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Reviews for Photography and the American Civil War
"The American Civil War, for the purposes of this riveting study, begins just before the 1860 presidential election, which swept Abraham Lincoln to power, and ends with the aftermath of his assassination in 1865. Warfare itself . . . makes up only a part of this book. There is striking and unexpected imagery . . . The final pictures ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Photography and the American Civil War


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