Soon after Alexander Gardners Photographic Sketch Bookwas published in1866 it became the Civil Wars bestknown visual record and helped define howviewers then an... » 

Soon after Alexander Gardners Photographic Sketch Bookwas published in1866 it became the Civil Wars bestknown visual record and helped define howviewers then and in subsequent generations would come to know the war.Gardners classic also became foundational in the history of Americanphotography combining for the first time words and images in a sophisticatedand moving account. This book written by the art historian Anthony W. Lee andthe literary scholar Elizabeth Young interprets the story of the war as toldby Gardner unraveling his careful choice of words and images and thecomplicated play between them and understanding them against the backdrop ofthe literary and photographic cultures of the American antebellum andReconstruction eras. This book presents a unique study of a pivotal Americanhistorical document approaching it from the perspective of visual studies aswell as American literature and history. «