ENGL 3960 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Photographic Plate, War Photography, Middleground
29 Mar 2017
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Lens of war asked a number of prominent historians of civil war to pick a photo and write own meditation on it. Civil war: american history, remains a complicated, heavily invested in event by american subjects. Late 1850s constituation was faced with a problem: raises question as what would happen as manifest destiny occurred, each state have constitutional debate. Will they be a slave holding state or not: kansas was prevented by john. Hospital sketches: see how horrible hospital"s were, don"t get a visceral sense from book that photos give. Shocking for americans during period, a simple tech advance allowed photographers that usually worked in studio to go in the field. Photographers would go to battlegrounds and capture images. Wagon would have materials needed to produce photos on the spot. Would pay certain amount of money to look at a stereoscope: made from camera with 1 lenses, left is slightly diff from right, becomes 3d representation.
