On Alexander Gerdner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (Defining Moments in American Photography)

by ElizabethYoung (Author), Anthony W Lee (Author)

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  2007

  $28.56

  Soon after Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers would come to know the war. This study of a pivotal American historical document, approaching it from the perspective of visual studies as well as American literature and history.