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Format:	Softcover	Publication Year:	1982
Subject:	Military & War	Special Attributes:	1st Edition
	Specific Wars	Language:	English
	Civil War	Condition:	--

For offer is this Large Sized 1st edition Soft Cover Book

RUSSELL'S CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHY
116 HISTORIC PRINTS
by UNION CAPTAIN ANDREW J. RUSSELL

CAPTAIN A.J. RUSSELL DID NOT PHOTOGRAPH CELEBRITIES, RUN FASHIONABLE PHOTO-GALLERIES OR PUBLISH COLLECTIONS OF HIS VIEWS. MOST HISTORIES IN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY CAN BARELY STRETCH HIS BIOGRAPHICAL DATA INTO A PARAGRAPH. HIS PEERS AND SUPERIORS RECOGNIZED THE QUALITY OF HIS WORK, BUT AS WITH OTHER UNASSUMING PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE CIVIL WAR, MANY OF HIS PICTURES WERE LATER ATTRIBUTED TO BRADY. YET HE IS UNQUESTIONABLY A MAJOR FIGURE IN 19th CENTURY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, A PIONEER IN EVERY SENSE.

RUSSELL WAS ONE OF ONLY TWO OR THREE OFFICIAL CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS, PERHAPS THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS ALSO A SOLDIER. AFTER THE WAR HE HEADED WEST TO BECOME THE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE UNION-PACIFIC RAILROAD AS IT BREACHED THE FRONTIER.

RUSSELL'S FRONTIER PHOTOGRAPHS CAME TO BE BETTER KNOWN THAN THOSE HE TOOK AS ENGINEER-PHOTOGRAPHER WITH THE ELITE RAILROAD CONTRUCTION CORPS, ATTACHED TO GENERAL GRANT'S MILITARY RAILROAD. THESE EARLY EXPERIMENTS IN MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY, HOWEVER, ASIDE FROM THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHOTO-TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, PROVE RUSSELL A REMARKABLE CAMERA ARTIST. HERE, REPRODUCED FROM ONE OF THE FEW SURVIVING SCRAPBOOKS OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHS, ARE 116 RARE PRINTS, MANY NEVER PUBLISHED, RESTORING A LARGELY FORGOTTEN AUDIENCE READY TO APPRECIATE HIS WORK.

RUSSELL'S DUTY INCLUDED RECORDING THE ACTIVITIES AT THE CRUCIAL RAILROAD CORPS AS IT HELPED MOVE THE UNION ARMY THROUGH VIRGINIA. AT THE SAME TIME, HE WITNESSED AND CHRONICLED THE CAMPAIGNS of FREDERICKSBURG, PETERSBURG, BRANDY and ALEXANDRIA, and was there to Photograph RICHMONG in RUINS. HE DOCUMENTS NOT ONLY TRACKS, BRIDGES, DEPOTS, and ENGINES of WAR, but SURROUNDING SCENES, such as BULL RUN, MEADE'S Headquarters at CULPEPPER and BRANDY, BURYING THE DEAD Following BATTLES of the WILDERNESS and SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, LEE'S RESIDENCE AT ARLINGTON, FORT HELL and FORT DAMNATION, LIBBY PRISON in RICHMOND, the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, the CAPITOL, and a HERETOFORE UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPH of PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FUNERAL CAR.

THE FULL-PAGE PANORAMAS CAPTURE THE WASTAGE OF WAR THAT SO SHOCKED THE CIVILIAN PUBLIC WHEN FIRST EXPOSED TO PHOTOS OF BATTLES. THERE ARE ALSO AESTHETIC SHOTS, LANDSCAPES SUCH AS GREAT FALLS on the POTOMAC, WHICH OFFER RELIEF. NEW CAPTIONS AND A PREFACE FILL IN HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL and PHOTOGRAPHIC DETAIL. This COLLECTION of VIEWS by a PROFESSIONAL MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHER, PERHAPS THE FIRST IN HIS PROFESSION, is an ARCHIVE of ENGINEERING TRIUMPHS and HUMAN LOSS. STUDENTS of the CIVIL WAR will discover VIEWS UNSEEN in the Standard Works, while LOVERS of PHOTOGRAPHY will rediscover in RUSSELL an early MASTER of the PHOTOGRAPHIC ART.

RUSSELL'S CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS is a GREAT EDITION for ANY Collector of the CIVIL WAR and will make a FANTASTIC ADDITION to ANY PERSONAL LIBRARY!! THIS IS ONE TO BE ENJOYED FOR YEARS! THE PAPER WILL NOT DISCOLOUR or BECOME BRITTLE WITH AGE! The PAGES are SEWN IN SIGNATURES, in the METHOD TRADITIONALLY USED FOR THE BEST BOOKS! OPENS FLAT for EASY REFERENCE, BINDING WILL NOT CRACK or SPLIT!!

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH 116 FULL PAGE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT! First Edition published 1982 by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. Large sized soft cover MEASURES Approximately 31cm Tall x 23.7cm Wide. Very Nice general condition. CLEAN Internally, Low signs of any natural aging and very isolated signs of shelf wear to outer edges, corners. .

A GREAT BOOK for CAR FANATIC !!! HARD TO FIND BOOK!

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