[PDF] Gardners Photographic Sketch Book Of The War eBook

Author : Alexander Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486227316

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Photographs taken in the field provide an extraordinary commentary upon the Civil War

Author : Alexander Gardner
Publisher : Delano Greenridge Editions
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :

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This volume contains one hundred of the greatest war pictures ever taken. Union troops in battle, Lincoln at Antietam, the ruins of Richmond, Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and more. It became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This classic also became foundational in the history of American photography, combining, for the first time, words and images in a sophisticated and moving account.

Author : Makeda Best
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0271087528

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Alexander Gardner is best known for his innovative photographic history of the Civil War. What is less known is the extent to which he was involved in the international workers’ rights movement. Tying Gardner’s photographic storytelling to his transatlantic reform activities, this book expands our understanding of Gardner’s career and the work of his studio in Washington, DC, by situating his photographic production within the era’s discourse on social and political reform. Drawing on previously unknown primary sources and original close readings, Makeda Best reveals how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and photography in the United States shared an ideological foundation. She reads his Photographic Sketch Book of the War as a politically motivated project, rooted in Gardner’s Chartist and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how its treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with the harm that the institution posed to the United States’ reputation as a model democracy. Best shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated Northern labor communities and elevated white immigrant workers, despite the industrialization that degraded them. She concludes with a discussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American national infrastructure in which photographers and photography played an integral role. Original and compelling, this reconsideration of Gardner’s work expands the contribution of Civil War photography beyond the immediate narrative of the war to comprehend its relation to the vigorous international debates about democracy, industrialization, and the rights of citizens. Scholars working at the intersection of photography, cultural history, and social reform in the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic will find Best’s work invaluable to their own research.

Author : Mark Katz
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Photographers
ISBN : 9781558537422

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Alexander Gardner's photographs are among the most memorable images of the Civil War, and they fill this powerful biography, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History. "This album of Gardner's work is nothing less than sensational " -- "Booklist"

Author : Jeff L. Rosenheim
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0300191804

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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.

Author : Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2005-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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Retells the Civil War through the eyes of photographer Mathew Brady and other field photographers as they record a brutal and deadly time.

Author : Jane Lee Aspinwall
Publisher : Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780300208245

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A glimpse into the development of the American West through startling photographs of the frontier landscape and the rich culture of American Indian tribes Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian County. In 1867, after joining the survey team for what became the Kansas Pacific Railroad, Gardner photographed the path of the proposed extension, emphasizing the ease of future railroad construction and economic development, while including studies of American Indians and settlements along the way. The following year, Gardner recorded peace talks with Indian tribes at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Distinctly sympathetic to the plight of the American Indian, Gardner made candid documentation of individual chiefs, their encampments and daily life, burial trees, and the peace proceedings themselves. With a full catalogue raisonné of these two rare series, Alexander Gardner offers a complete visual index of these remarkable photographs, made at a critical moment in the history of the American West. Distributed for the Hall Family Foundation and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (07/25/14-01/11/15)

Author : Benson John Lossing
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :

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A comprehensive narrative and collection of photographs of the Civil War.