Ruins of Petersburg and Richard Raidroad Bridge
April 1864
Medium
Albumen print, pl. 88 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 17.7 × 23 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 31.1 × 44.3 cm (12 1/4 × 17 1/2 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
196225
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Alexander Gardner · 1840–1882
Alexander Gardner was born on 17 October 1821 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and came of age in a culture shaped by radical social thought. Influenced by the cooperative ideals of Robert Owen, Gardner initially apprenticed as a jeweler and harbored dreams of founding a utopian community in America. His encounter with photography changed the course of his life. After seeing Mathew Brady's cele...