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Civil War Photography
Posted By Brian Tomlin on June 4, 2012
- 1860s Photographic Techniques
- daguerreotype. Library of Congress collection and description of daguerreotype method
- calotype. University of Oxford website describing this process, with examples
- ambrotype. site discussing photographic process popular during civil war, using positive images rather than the familiar negatives
- tintype. Video showing how this variation of the ambrotypes were made.
- carte de viste (CDV). American Museum of Photography exhibition on these small photographs that could be mailed and were very popular in the period.
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- Carte de Viste – Harrison Riegle – taken about 1865- in Civil War uniform. From teh collectionof the Gratz Historical Society
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- Tin Type – Harrison Riegle, Hannah [Rickert] Riegle, and son Chauncey Riegle. This is a post Civil War photo, taken around 1872, and of the same type as those during the Civil War. From the Gratz Historical Society Collection
- Photographic Equipment. Civil War Reenactors Site has many images of civil war era photo equipment
- Books on Civil War Photography
- Garrison, Webb. (2011). Brady’s Civil War: A Collection of memorable Civil War Images Photographed by Matthew Brady and his assistants. (revised edition). Lyons Press. 256 pages. ISBN:9780762770755. $24.95. Book showcasing the work and career of the most famous photographer from the civil war, Matthew Brady.
- Gardener, Alexander. Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War.Dover Publications. $16.95 Brady’s chief photographer during the Civil War first published this collection of his photos in 1866. A true photography classic.
- Civil War Photos. (CD and book) Dover Publications, part of Dover Electronic Clip art Series. $14.95. 153 civil war era photos in a book and in professional quality images on disc.
- Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History series.University of Arkansas Press. A nine-volume series, each volume focusing on one southern state during the war, telling that state’s war experience through photographs.
- Web Resources
- American Civil War Photo Gallery.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- History.com video on the impact of photography in the civil war
- Library of Congress photo collection
- Online collections of Matthew Brady photographs
- Photographs from the American Civil War. A site that seeks to tell the story of the war through photos
- Online exhibit of George Barnard’s Civil War Photographs from the collection of the University of Notre Dame
- Discussion of the 12 part book series Photographic history of the Civil War by Norman Gasbarro
- Gratz Digital Collection. As part of the Digital Soldier files of the Gratz Historical Society available at its library, about 100 civil war era photographs are available as digital files that can be bought as files or printed as photographs.
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