Communication Through Pictures

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in a bath solution. Then placed in a holder, the plate would then be inserted into the camera, which had been previously positioned and focused by the other photographer (Applebee 479).
After the picture had been taken the photographer had to rush to develop the plate in the traveling darkroom wagon. The photograph had to be treated with care after development, tough on the battlefield.
The best known pictorial records of the Civil War are the photographs commissioned by Mathew Brady (1823-1896), a leading portrait photographer of New York and Washington.
At the beginning of the war, Brady sent photographers into the field to record the progress of the conflict in various regions (“Photographs in the Civil War” Internet). Although taking a few photographs himself, he employed twenty independent field photographers (Ibid). These images of camp life, artillery, fortification, railroads, ships, bridges, towns, battlefields, officers, and men in ranks were published in a series ...

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