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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

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"The American Civil War, for the purposes of this riveting study, begins just before the 1860 presidential election, which swept Abraham Lincoln to power, and ends with the aftermath of his assassination in 1865.

Warfare itself . . . makes up only a part of this book. There is striking and unexpected imagery . . . The final pictures are as momentous as any. Gardner’s sequence showing the execution of the Lincoln assassins . . . still have in our desensitised times the power to shock. For a book of this scope and depth, academic, meticulously researched and a corrective to much that has gone before, the text reads throughout like a thriller."—Robin Muir, World of Interiors

Photography and the American Civil War

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    A Hardback by Jeff L. Rosenheim

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 7 May 2013
      ISBN-13 9780300191806
      978-0300191806
      ISBN-10 0300191804
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      Photographs: collections Photography: portraits and self-portraiture Civil wars

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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

      Trade Review

      "The American Civil War, for the purposes of this riveting study, begins just before the 1860 presidential election, which swept Abraham Lincoln to power, and ends with the aftermath of his assassination in 1865.

      Warfare itself . . . makes up only a part of this book. There is striking and unexpected imagery . . . The final pictures are as momentous as any. Gardner’s sequence showing the execution of the Lincoln assassins . . . still have in our desensitised times the power to shock. For a book of this scope and depth, academic, meticulously researched and a corrective to much that has gone before, the text reads throughout like a thriller."—Robin Muir, World of Interiors

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