Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War is an app where you page through an antique photo album of 100 photos selected from Gardner's 3000 original works. The table of contents is divided ...

Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War was published in 1866. Each of the two albums contains fifty photographs of different scenes of the Civil War and is accompanied by text written by Gardner ...

Art historian Lee (Picturing Chinatown) and literary scholar Young (Disarming the Nation) deconstruct the work of Alexander Gardner's seminal 1866 book of Civil War photos in separate, short essays.

When the photographic process was invented 160 years ago, many thought its primary use would be this: artists quickly recording a scene and its details and then using the photograph later as ...