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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
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Photography in the Civil War: Bringing the Battle to the Home Front Jamie Braunstein
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
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Political Figures Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant
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?