During the Civil War era, there were photography studios in big cities ... to make it look as if they were in a studio. A painted backdrop or a plain canvas would add to the fallacy.

This touching and rare image is among a splendid array of American Civil War photographs on view here ... Figures are posed before backdrops appropriate to their military service.

As we plummet toward the millennium, the Civil War still eats at our public and ... are like remembered figures from old family photographs, brilliantly reanimated to help us understand the ...

the most extensive collection of Civil War photography that exists ... The photographers placed the soldier against the backdrop of a stone fortification, probably turned his head toward the ...

The photo was taken by the famous Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner ... Gardner moved the body there to create a more dramatic backdrop. O’Leary and Griffin chose the name because their ...

A new book by scholar Deborah Willis features more than 70 photos ... backdrop of portraits.” As Nadja Sayej reports for the Guardian, the scholar and artist’s latest book, The Black Civil War ...

SHARPSBURG, Md. (DC News Now) — Some of the most famous Civil War photographs were taken right on the Antietam Battlefield. Historian Bob Zeller has devoted a quarter-century to collecting ...

D.C., took of Martin during his recovery from the amputation of his right arm and left leg is one of the most recognized photos of the Civil War.

We all remember the controversy surrounding whether photographs of flag-draped caskets at Dover Air Force Base in 2004 could be shown to the American public. At its core, the Civil War challenged ...

When we cut back to the original camp at some point, there are only dead bodies left on the ground, in images reminiscent of Matthew Brady’s stunning photographs of Civil War battlefields.