[Scmusenet] Civil War Photography Exhibit Featuring Iconic Images

[Cassidy Shaiman, Jai]

OPENING FRIDAY!


 

Iconic Images of the Civil War Featured in New Photography Exhibit

 

COLUMBIA, SC - Robert E. Lee in the uniform he wore while surrendering
at Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln's last formal photo session in the White
House. The moment when the Lincoln assassination plotters were executed.


 

These images - and dozens of other iconic photographs of America's
bloody Civil War - are coming to the S.C Confederate Relic Room and
Military Museum March 28 as part of a fascinating new exhibit, "Civil
War Photographs from the David L. Hack Collection."  The first South
Carolina appearance for the traveling exhibit organized by the Chrysler
Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia will feature over 50 unique period
photographs. 

 

"The images in this collection are stark, human and unforgettable and
will be of great interest to both the military history enthusiast and
the general public," said museum Director Allen Roberson. "These are
some of the most powerful and well-known photographs in our nation's
history."

 

They range from portraits of Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow and
her daughter to battle front scenes and studio shots of soldiers and
their tattered flags. Some of the subjects, like Gen. George Armstrong
Custer, would make their mark after the war. The exhibit also explains
the technical processes used by photographers during this time when
photography was first becoming a mass medium.  

 

The exhibit includes images from a variety of photographers who worked
in the North and South.  While Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner are
perhaps the most well-known photographers of the war, there were several
talented photographers who worked in the South.  However, they struggled
to produce images during the war due to difficulties in obtaining
supplies. 

 

The Chrysler exhibit has been supplemented with a few examples from
South Carolina photographers that are from the Confederate Relic Room
and Military Museum's collection or borrowed from the South Caroliniana
Library.  

 

Also on exhibit will be "Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie
Anne Wright," which features photographs depicting Civil War re-enactors
using the primitive pinhole photography process.  Using this technique,
Wright (b. 1924) followed living historians to many re-enactments to
document scenes similar to those that interested Civil War-era
photographers.   

 

Both exhibits open March 28, 2008 and close June 28, 2008.  They will be
displayed in two galleries located within the main gallery.   

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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
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