Reading American Photographs
Reading American Photographs

Author: Alan Trachtenberg

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1990-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780374522490

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Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.

A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections
A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections

Author: Richard Upsher Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1611463459

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This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. The letters witness to their conviction that the pain of their four-year separation and other deprivations would help purify the country from the sin of slavery.