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DAY 62 | HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY |
Photography and the American Civil War
BIRTH OF THE DOCUMENTARY
One of the most significant milestones in the cultural, if not technical, development of photography and war photojournalism was in documenting America’s War Between the States. Daguerreotypist Mathew Brady, who was already a successful commercial photographer, acclaimed for, among other things, his portraits of famous Americans, recognized the cultural value of documenting such an important historical event. He assembled a team that included Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner and as many as 100 others and set out to record the epic scale ...
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