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About the book >.>.> In Photograpby and the American Civil War curator and photography historian Jeff L. Rosenheim provides a bracing commentary on the importance of the camera during this turbulent period. In telling the fascinating stories of wartime photographers he shows how studio portraits and battlefield scenes galvanized public opinion and how enterprising artists created a vast and enduring visual archive. Featuring more than 200 photographs and related artworks and ephemera this volume includes haunting landscapes strewn with slain soldiers; intimate. studio portraits of armed Union and Confederate recruits preparing to meet their destiny rare panoramas of Gettysburg and Richmond; languorous camp scenes showing exhausted troops in repose; diagnostic medical studies of wounded soldiers who survived the war’s final bloody battles; and portraits of Abraham Lincoln and of his assassin John Wilkes Booth. Published to coincide with the 1goth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg this remarkable volume draws extensively on the Metropolitan Museum’s celebrated holdings of Civil War photographs by Mathew B. Brady Alexander Gardner Timothy H. O’Sullivan and George F. Barnard among others and also includes exceptional works from private and public collections. As Rosenheim writes in his eloquent text photography “performed a key role the opposing armies and their leaders could not: it defined and perhaps even helped unify the nation through an unrehearsed and unscripted act of collective memory-making. (MP)