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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

Famous photographers such as Mathew Brady and his apprentice Alexander Gardner made it ... colonel in 1865. This photo by Mathew Brady, the most famous Civil War photographer, portrays three ...

In 1862 Alexander Gardner, a commercial photographer ... wounded or missing in the worst single day of fighting of the US Civil War. The photos Gardner took were shown in a New York exhibition ...

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 ...

Famous photographers such as Mathew Brady and his apprentice Alexander Gardner made it ... colonel in 1865. This photo by Mathew Brady, the most famous Civil War photographer, portrays three ...