On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

Name: On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780520253315

ISBN-10: 0520253310

ISBN-13: 9780520253315

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anthony W. Lee, Elizabeth Young

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Soon afterGardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Warwas published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers, then and in subsequent generations, would come to know the war. Alexander Gardner's classic also became foundational in the history of American photography, combining, for the first time, words and images in a sophisticated and moving account. This book, written by the art historian Anthony W. Lee and the literary scholar Elizabeth Young, interprets the story of the war as told by Gardner, unraveling his careful choice of words and images and the complicated play between them, and understanding them against the backdrop of the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.36" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction


The Image of War



Verbal Battlefields



Acknowledgments


Notes


Works Cited


Index