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On Alexander Gardner's photographic sketch book of the Civil War
By Lee, Anthony Gordon & Young, Elizabeth
- ISBN
- 978-0-52025-151-9
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 17, 2007
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. Soon after its publication, Gardner's work became "the first book to rely so heavily on pictures for its meanings," as Hay notes in the book's introduction. Lee focuses on the images in his essay, "The Imag...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
