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Civil War Ser.: Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by Everett F. Bleiler and Alexander Gardner (1959, Trade Paperback)

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Second only to Mathew Brady as the foremost early American photographer was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady's Washington salon and Brady's chief photographer in the field during the early days of the Civil War. Indeed, Gardner -- who later photographed the War independently -- often managed the famous horse-drawn photographic laboratory and took many of the pictures that used to be attributed to Brady. He accompanied the Union troops on their marches, their camps and bivouacs, their battles, and on their many hasty retreats and routs during the early days of the War. In 1866 Alexander Gardner published a very ambitious two-volume work which contained prints of some 100 photographs which he had taken in the field. A list of them reads like a roster of great events and great men: Antietam Bridge under Travel, President Lincoln (and McClellan) at Antietam, Pinkerton and His Agents in the Field, Ruins of Richmond, Libby Prison, McLean's House Where Lee's Surrender Was Signed, Meade's Headquarters at Gettysburg, Battery D, Second U.S. Artillery in Action at Fredericksburg, the Slaughter Pen at Gettysburg, and many others. This publication is now amoung the rarest American books, and is here for the first time republished inexpensively. Gardner's photographs are among the greatest war pictures ever taken and are also among the most prized records of American history. Gardner was quite conscious of recording history, and spared himself no pains or risk to achieve the finest results. His work indicates a technical mastery that now seems incredible when one bears in mind the vicissitudes of collodion applications in the field, wet plates, long exposures, long drying times, imperfect chemicals -- plus enemy bullets around the photographer's ears. It has been said of these photographs: photography today . . . is far easier, but it is no better.

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Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0486227316
ISBN-13
9780486227313
eBay Product ID (ePID)
252696

Product Key Features

Book Title
Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War
Author
Alexander Gardner, Everett F. Bleiler
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), History
Publication Year
1959
Genre
Photography, History
Number of Pages
244 Pages

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Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
10.6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Target Audience
Trade
Series
Civil War Ser.
Illustrated
Yes

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by trabant601Dec 10, 2006
Best photographic documentary on the war.
There are historic photographs from the early days of photo-jurnalism used very effectivly. The propaganda is superb. It really is the best photographic documentary of that war. It is worthy of further research.
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by rambo1.951May 06, 2011
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This book is a great resource for original civil war photographs, and about them. Highly recommended.

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