Monday, December 17, 2007
SMU curator sheds new light on pioneer photographer
Technically proficient - and he looks great in buckskins, too.
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Matthew Brady got the credit for some of the most celebrated photographs taken during the Civil War - but, it turns out, he may not have actually snapped the shutter.
That accreditation is now being conferred upon the rightful individual: Alexander Gardner, who worked with Brady and managed his Washington, D.C. studio starting in 1858. The rightful credit will finally go to Gardner thanks in large part to Anne E. Peterson, Curator of Photographs at SMU's DeGolyer Library.
Having made Gardner the primary focus of her research with the intent of producing a book on his career as a photographer, Peterson will also be putting on an exhibit of his works at the DeGolyer as part of the Library's Civil War 150th anniversary observation (in 2011 - stay tuned).
After the Civil War, Gardner - who photographed President Abraham Lincoln 37 times - traveled widely in the American West and made the first photographic record of a number of localities visited by the railroad surveying expedition he accompanied there. Peterson will also be working up a book on photographs from this expedition, along with putting together another DeGolyer exhibition on the subject. (The DeGolyer owns one of only four known portfolios produced from Gardner's Western survey work.)
Here's a cool slideshow of Gardner's photography; looks like he spent a lot of time in New Mexico. (Can't say as I blame him.)
'Xander: love those buckskins, bud!
posted by JM
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