Photography and the American Civil War by Rosenheim, Jeff L.

Photography and the American Civil War

This eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and...
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Author: Jeff L. Rosenheim
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Language: English
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Photography and the American Civil War by Rosenheim, Jeff L.

Photography and the American Civil War

€49,82

Photography and the American Civil War

€49,82
Author: Jeff L. Rosenheim
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 access to the horrors of the battlefield.

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)



Author: Jeff L. Rosenheim
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.03lbs
Size: 11.44h x 9.21w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9780300191806


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/17/2013
New York Review of Books 08/15/2013 pg. 8
Choice 10/01/2013

About the Author

Jeff Rosenheim is curator in charge in the department of photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.




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