[Scmusenet] Free Demonstration/Lecture on Civil War Photography

[Cassidy Shaiman, Jai]

April 14, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

COLUMBIA, SC - On April 26, the SC Confederate Relic Room & Military
Museum is hosting a lecture and demonstration on Civil War photography.
This event coincides with the museum's latest exhibit, "Civil War
Photographs from the David L. Hack Collection."  This traveling exhibit
organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia features
unique and rare period photographs. 

 

These images include Robert E. Lee in the uniform he wore while
surrendering at Appomattox and Abraham Lincoln's last formal photo
session in the White House. Photographs of battlefield medicine tents at
Gettysburg, a military band, and Confederate spy Rose Greenhow are among
the unique scenes on display.  Also included is one of the first
examples of photo journalism in American history - Alexander Gardner's
photograph series of the Lincoln assassination conspirators' execution.


 

Brooks Johnson, Curator of Photography at the Chrysler Museum, will
speak about iconic photographs on display, as well as the photographers
of the Civil War.  He will also discuss the various techniques utilized
in this time period.  A brief exhibit tour will follow the lecture.    

 

After the tour, Jonathan Goley, a Columbia area photographer and artist,
will provide an educational demonstration of wet plate collodion
photography.  This was one technique used by photographers during the
Civil War.

 

The event begins at 1:00pm and is free to the public. This program is
sponsored by The Humanities Council SC, a state program of the National
Endowment for the Humanities; inspiring, engaging and enriching South
Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.


 

For more information about the exhibit, please visit
http://www.crr.sc.gov/exhibitions/current/
<blocked::http://www.crr.sc.gov/exhibitions/current/> .  

 

Founded in 1896, the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is
the oldest museum in the Columbia area. The museum focuses on South
Carolina's military history from the Revolutionary War to the present
War on Terror.  

 

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Jai Cassidy Shaiman
PR and Graphic Design
SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum
301 Gervais Street
Columbia, SC 29201
P: 803-737-8287
F: 803-737-8099
jcassidy at crr.sc.gov
www.crr.sc.gov <http://www.crr.sc.gov/> 
www.wftf.sc.gov <http://www.wftf.sc.gov/> 
www.youtube.com/SCCRRMM
 
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