What is the importance photography in the United States Civil War?
I hаνе tο mаkе a slide ѕhοw οf nο less thаn 5 slides explaining thе importance οf photographs during thе U.S. Civil War. I саnnοt find enough information tο fill up even two slides.
Whаt I dο hаνе already іѕ thаt thіѕ war wаѕ thе first war tο hаνе еνеr bееn photographed аnd thаt Americans аll over thе continent wеrе аblе tο see horrifying аnd vivid pictures οf thеіr οwn people murdering each οthеr.
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The most vital reason for photography was not just to have a reminder, but also to help keep military records, medical records, and to aid in history books for their future.
Melinda Matthews, Queen of Knows-a-Lot, and Professional Hug-Giver
You cannot answer this question without learning about Mathew Brady, the pre-eminent photographer of the conflict.
See what he saw, and you will have no famine of info.
I just typed in civil war photos into my search bar and bounty of websites came up:
http://www.civil-war.net/cw_images/index.htm
http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwphotos.html
http://www.civilwar-pictures.com/g/civil-war-pictures
http://www.archives.gov/research/civil-war/photos/
And here is the search results page:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-veoh&p=american%20civil%20war%20photos&type=
Photographs back then had to be of complete still objects or else the photo would just come out blurry. That clarifies why the only pictures we have of the Civil War are pictures of dead bodies and not action shots.
You are going to make a terrible start with your show if you start by saying that it was the first war to be photographed. This is incorrect. The first war photographs were taken by Roger Fenton during the Crimean War in the previous decade. I reflect you need to do quite a lot more research; this is positively simple as I imagine that there have been one or two articles, nay, books even, written about Matthew Brady and the American Civil War. It’s possible that you may find references to this subject on the Internet if you look hard.