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- Shooting Lincoln : Mathew…
- Authors:
- Pistor, Nicholas J. C.
- Item ID:
- 71201800200032
- Publisher:
- Boston, MA : Da Capo Press, 2017.
- Edition:
- First Da Capo Press edition.
- ISBN:
- 9780306824692 (hardcover : alkaline paper); 0306824698 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
- Call Number:
- E457.5 .P57 2017
- Physical Description:
- vii, 223 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Topic:
- Photojournalists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination -- Press coverage.
- Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896.
- Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882.
- Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.; Prologue: shooting Lincoln -- The great exhibition -- The making of a president -- The battlefield -- A hearse at your door -- The breakup -- Surrender -- Assassination -- The crime scene -- The funeral -- The hunt for Booth -- Autopsy -- The rogues' gallery -- Trial by picture -- The gallows -- The execution -- Broken -- Epilogue: motion pictures.; Their long rivalry climaxed with the spilled blood of an American president. Mathew Brady, nearly blind and hoping to rekindle his artistic photographic magic, competed against his former understudy, Alexander Gardner, to record the epic moments of President Abraham Lincoln's death; the hunt for his murderer, John Wilkes Booth; and the execution of the men and women who conspired with Booth to cripple the United States government. 'Shooting Lincoln' tells the tory of their race for lasting camera-lens glory-and shows how, at the end of the Civil War, photography had become the photojournalism that would our change culture forever. Brady and Gardner took some of the most memorable images ever recorded in history, invented a new media industry, and became the fathers of modern media, unlocking the passion of Americans for close-up views of history as it happened.
- OCLC Number:
- ocn992498422
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Available for Viewing:
- By appointment only
- Category:
- Books & Pamphlets