{"product_id":"photography-and-the-american-civil-jeff-l-rosenheim-9780300191806","title":"Photography and the American Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis eye-opening study of Civil War photography traces the introduction of the camera into the battlefield and shows its influence on history and our responses to war\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation's deadliest war. If the \"War Between the States\" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also a watershed in photographic history, as the camera recorded the epic, heartbreaking narrative from beginning to end--providing those on the home front, for the first time, with immediate visual access to the horrors of the battlefield.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhotography and the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e features both familiar and rarely seen images that include haunting battlefield landscapes strewn with bodies, studio portraits of armed Confederate and Union soldiers (sometimes in the same family) preparing to meet their destiny, rare multi-panel panoramas of Gettysburg and Richmond, languorous camp scenes showing exhausted troops in repose, diagnostic medical studies of wounded soldiers who survived the war's last bloody battles, and portraits of both Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg (1863), this beautifully produced book features Civil War photographs by George Barnard, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art\/Distributed by Yale University Press \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition Schedule: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Metropolitan Museum of Art\u003c\/b\u003e(04\/01\/13-09\/02\/13)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Gibbes Museum of Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(09\/27\/13-01\/05\/14)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Orleans Museum of Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(01\/31\/14-05\/04\/14)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff L. Rosenheim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300191804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300191806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Metropolitan Museum of Art New York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.44h x 9.21w x 1.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2013 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2013","brand":"Jeff L. Rosenheim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44583706722559,"sku":"9780300191806","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d606cbc4-d0ab-407c-b461-7f83f616d10a.jpg?v=1701883111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/photography-and-the-american-civil-jeff-l-rosenheim-9780300191806","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}