Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age

Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age

The vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal about the lack of permanence and the constant struggle to make images “mean”, even for an event as momentous as the American Civil War. In the 1890s, with the advancing age of the generation of combatan...

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Main Author: William GLEESON
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2011-06-01
Series:E-REA
Subjects:
Civil War
G.A.R.
lantern slides
photography
sectional reconciliation
stereopticon
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1791
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spelling doaj-21b5cde79fec405ca005503e45cb6e1c2020-11-25T01:32:48ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182011-06-01810.4000/erea.1791Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded AgeWilliam GLEESONThe vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal about the lack of permanence and the constant struggle to make images “mean”, even for an event as momentous as the American Civil War. In the 1890s, with the advancing age of the generation of combatants, there was a re-emergence of the images taken during the War, whether it be in lantern slide shows or in publications. The case of the War Photograph & Exhibition Company headed by John Taylor and William Huntington is an example of how partisan associative politics and the photographic image were merged. The Taylor and Huntington enterprise eventually ceded to the realities of sectional reconciliation and a change in how Americans looked at and understood photographic images.http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1791Civil WarG.A.R.lantern slidesphotographysectional reconciliationstereopticon
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Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age
E-REA
Civil War
G.A.R.
lantern slides
photography
sectional reconciliation
stereopticon
author_facet William GLEESON
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title Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age
title_short Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age
title_full Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age
title_fullStr Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age
title_full_unstemmed Waving the Black-and-White Bloody Shirt: Civil War Remembrance and the Fluctuating Functions of Images in the Gilded Age
title_sort waving the black-and-white bloody shirt: civil war remembrance and the fluctuating functions of images in the gilded age
publisher Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
series E-REA
issn 1638-1718
publishDate 2011-06-01
description The vicissitudes in the post-Civil War period of images made of the conflict tell us a great deal about the lack of permanence and the constant struggle to make images “mean”, even for an event as momentous as the American Civil War. In the 1890s, with the advancing age of the generation of combatants, there was a re-emergence of the images taken during the War, whether it be in lantern slide shows or in publications. The case of the War Photograph & Exhibition Company headed by John Taylor and William Huntington is an example of how partisan associative politics and the photographic image were merged. The Taylor and Huntington enterprise eventually ceded to the realities of sectional reconciliation and a change in how Americans looked at and understood photographic images.
topic Civil War
G.A.R.
lantern slides
photography
sectional reconciliation
stereopticon
url http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1791
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