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Photography in the Civil War: Bringing the Battle to the Home Front. Jamie Braunstein. Why Focus on the Civil War?. F irst major conflict extensively photographed Battle field photographs 1 Million photographs Images widely distributed and sold nationwide - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Jamie Braunstein
Photography in the Civil War:Bringing the Battle to the Home Front
Why Focus on the Civil War?
First major conflict extensively photographed▪ Battle field photographs ▪ 1 Million photographs
Images widely distributed and sold nationwide
Technological Advances in photography
Technological Advances
Wet-Plate Photography
Stereo-Views
Citizens Witness to Carnage
“Bloody Lane”
“Incidents of the War: A Harvest of Death”
Forming a Medical Perspective
R.B. Bontecou
Political Figures
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Keepsakes
Discussion Questions Should photographers be allowed to take pictures of
the battlefield? Overall, does this have a positive or negative impact on the public’s perception of war?
Some of the photographs taken by Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner have been rumored to be staged. If this is true, do you think the photographs would have had
less of an impact had they not been staged? What does photographers feeling the need to stage
photographs say about how war-related information and media is relayed to the public?
What does this mean for the way we should approach war-related media?