Main entry:

Rosenheim, Jeff, author.

Title & Author:

Photography and the American Civil War / Jeff L. Rosenheim.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2013]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
©2013

Description:

vii, 277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 29 cm.

Series:

Metropolitan Museum of Art publications

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 2 through September 2, 2013; the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S.C., from September 27, 2013 through January 5, 2014; and the New Orleans Museum of Art, from January 31 through May 4, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251) and index.
Shadows of ourselves -- The dead of Antietam -- Photography before the war -- Lincoln and the 1860 presidential election -- Secession and Fort Sumter -- Early war portraits -- Missing the picture, Bull Run, 1861-62 -- Gardner and his photographic sketch book -- Ambrotypes and tintypes -- Cartes de visite and other paper prints -- Collecting the wounded -- Barnard and his views of Sherman's campaign -- War's end and Lincoln's assassination -- The slow recovery.

Summary:

If the "War Between the States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also a watershed in photographic history, as the camera recorded the epic, heartbreaking narrative from beginning to end-- providing those on the home front, for the first time, with immediate visual access to the horrors of the battlefield.

ISBN:

9780300191806 (Yale University Press ; hbk.)
0300191804 (Yale University Press ; hbk.)
9781588394866 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1588394867 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Subject:

War photography United States Exhibitions.
Fotografia Estats Units d'Amèrica 1861-1865.
Photographie de guerre États-Unis Expositions.
War photography
Sezessionskrieg
Fotografie
Fotografia de guerra Exposicions.
War photography United States.
Amerikanska inbördeskriget 1861-1865.
Fotografi som propaganda.
Fotografi historia.
History.
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works.
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Exhibitions.
Förenta staterna.
États-Unis Histoire 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) Ouvrages illustrés.
États-Unis Histoire 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) Expositions.
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States
USA
Estats Units d'Amèrica 1861-1865, Guerra civil Fotografia.
1860-1865

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Exhibition catalogs
History
Pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.)
New Orleans Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art publications.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286342
Call No.: BIB 226588
Status: Available