War Without Heroes

Photography had been around for over 20 years before the civil war started on April 12th 1861, but became increasing popular just before the conflict broke out, due to the development of new techniques. The photography process was complex and very time consuming, photographers had to mix their own chemicals and prepare their wet plate glass negatives. The negatives has to be prepared, exposed, and developed before the emulsion dried.

Figure 1- Engineers of the 8th New York State Militia in front of a tent, 1861
Photographs documenting everyday life where also depicted for the first time during the civil war. Photos of men playing cards, playing instruments or cleaning there equipment. Black soldiers and slaves were also shown for the
Hamilton’s work defines the rise of the consumer society in the mid to late 1950s and is also iconic Pop art.
David Douglas Duncan’s War Without Heroes was published in 1970, War Without Heroes shows what war was like for the men who fight it. The book features some of the most moving, and powerful battle photographs of its time.
In 2004 till 2006 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China was exhibited, this exhibit was the first comprehensively consider the flood of photo based art that has taken place in China since the mid 1990’s. The exhibit features around 130 pieces by 60 different Chinese artists, many had never exhibited in the United States before.

Mathew B. Brady was born c.1823 near Lake George, and died January 15th, 1896 in New York. Brady was a 19th century photographer best-known for his portrait work, and photographs of the American civil war.
Brady was a businessman turned photographer, he learned the daguerreotype process from Morse and Draper, then later mastered the wet collodion process. Matthew B. Brady opened this own studio in 1844, were he took many formal
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Riis’s book How the Other Half Lives, documented the New York slums and what he had deemed the world of the other half, teeming with immigrants, disease, and abuse. Riis photographed the streets, people, and tenement apartments that he encountered. Riis’s powerful photos brought the urban conditions to the public’s attention, helping to start a national debate about the American working and living conditions and what they should be.

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget was born on February 12th 1857 in Libourne, near Bordeaux, France and died on August 4th 1927 in Paris. Atget was a French commercial photographer, specialising in photographing the architecture and associated arts of Paris and its surroundings at the turn of the 20th century.
The Atget family were saddlers and carriage makers, they moved from Provence to the Dordogne River region after the Napoleonic Wars. Atgets father died when he was five, followed soon after by his mother.
By the age of 21 Atget was living in Paris, and in 1879 was admitted to the National Conservatory of Music and Drama to study acting, but he was discharged within two years. Atget continued to act of seven years in travelling troops that barnstormed the lower levels of the theatrical audience in the