Poignant pioneers of photography: the American civil war – in pictures

“A landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York of rare photographs details some of the horrors of America’s civil war (1861-65). The war was documented by the emerging artform of photography, making a record of previously unseen people and events which remains in the country’s consciousness.”

See them here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2013/may/06/met-museum-new-york-american-civil-war-photography#/?picture=407049510&index=7

Categories: Archives, Life in the USA, Vintage Photos

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