Although Brady is known as the father of Civil War photography, it was Gardner who took so many of the pictures that have defined the event for posterity. Gardner "took more photos than anybody ...

Weinberg Lincoln Conspirators Collection Before Alexander Gardner made the most memorable photographs of the American Civil War, he had a ... who viewed Gardner’s photos was just what he hoped.

Art historian Lee (Picturing Chinatown) and literary scholar Young (Disarming the Nation) deconstruct the work of Alexander Gardner's seminal 1866 book of Civil War photos in separate, short essays.

When Alexander Gardner arrived on the bloody Antietam ... been exposed to any sorts of documentary-style photos, let alone images of war. “Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us ...

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The Civil War’s ... of his New York City photo studio that read, simply, “The Dead of Antietam.” Inside, he exhibited the work that his assistant, Alexander Gardner, made in the aftermath ...

When you think of Civil War photography, you might think of the man known as the father of the genre, Mathew Brady, and not his one-time assistant, Alexander Gardner. Many of Gardner’s photographs are ...

Photography was still relatively new in 1861 as the Civil ... Alexander Gardner, and George Barnard – among those whose work is represented here – formed a team to record images of the war.

Then you can sympathize with the great Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Sent by his employer, Mathew Brady, to take photos of the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Gardner pretty much invented ...

Civil War soldier photo exhibit opens Friday at the Rockwell ... George Barnard and Alexander Gardner. The exhibit is on loan from the George Eastman House in Rochester and commemorates the ...

Duke University recently acquired two stunning sets of photographs of the Civil War ... from Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War At the time the Lincoln photo was taken, the ...

For the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, we asked him to retrace the steps of Civil War photographer Alexander ... Gardner turned the lens on the dead soldiers awaiting burial. The ...