Alexander Gardner

Gardner worked for Mathew Brady before opening his own Washington, D.C. studio during the American Civil War. Some Civil War images once credited broadly to Brady's studio were later connected more specifically to Gardner and his operators.

Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War was published in 1866 in two volumes. It contained 100 mounted albumen prints with captions about Civil War battlefields, soldiers, and ruins.

Yes. Gardner made several portraits of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, including images from the final months of Lincoln's life in 1865.

The Gettysburg photograph known as Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter has long been discussed because evidence suggests the body and rifle may have been staged. The debate matters because Gardner's Civil War work sits between documentary evidence and 19th-century pictorial practice.