1863, PRESIDENT LINCOLN (11X8.5 BARYTA PRINT), BY ALEXANDER GARDNER /MATTHEW BRADY
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Upon visiting The Great Exhibition in 1851 in Hyde Park, London, he saw the photography of American Mathew Brady. In 1856, Alex and his family immigrated to the United States. He initiated contact with Brady and came to work for him that year, continuing until 1862. At first, Gardner specialized in making large photographic prints, called Imperial photographs, but as Brady’s eyesight began to fail, Gardner took on increasing responsibilities. Abraham Lincoln became the American President in the November 1860 election and along with his election came the threat of war. Gardner, being in Washington, was well-positioned for these events, and his popularity rose as a portrait photographer, capturing the images of soldiers leaving for war.
Brady had the idea to photograph the Civil War. Gardner knew Allan Pinkerton, head of an intelligence operation that would become the Secret Service, who communicated Brady's ideas to President Lincoln. Pinkerton recommended Gardner for the position of chief photographer. Gardner became a staff photographer under General George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac. The honorary rank of captain was bestowed upon Gardner, and he photographed the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, developing photos in his travelling darkroom.
Gardner received less than full recognition for his documentation of the Civil War, in that Brady took credit for his photographers work. That winter, Gardner followed General Ambrose Burnside, photographing the Battle of Fredericksburg-and then afterward the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863). Gardner would photograph President Lincoln on a total of seven occasions while Lincoln was alive. He also documented Lincoln's funeral, and photographed the conspirators involved (with John Wilkes Booth) in Lincoln's assassination. Gardner was the only photographer allowed at their execution when they were hanged. Photographs of which would later be translated into woodcuts for publication in Harper's Weekly. After the Civil War, Gardner surveyed the proposed route of the Kansas Pacific railroad to the Pacific Ocean. He became sick in the late fall of 1882 and died shortly afterward on December 10, 1882, at his home in Washington, D.C.
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1863, PRESIDENT LINCOLN (11X8.5 BARYTA PRINT), BY ALEXANDER GARDNER /MATTHEW BRADY
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