Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Rosenheim, Jeff

Publication

• New York, N.Y. : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2013]
• ©2013

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

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

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.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Museum of Art publications

Uniform Title

Metropolitan Museum of Art publications

Subject

• 1861-1865
• War photography > United States
• War photography > United States > Exhibitions
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Pictorial works
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• k – Exhibition – v – publications.
• exhibition catalogs.
• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Pictorial works
• Catalogues d'exposition.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 250-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

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

OCLC

• 827266828
• SCSB-12255814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library