Artist: Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882)
Nationality:American
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Media: Photography, Printmaking
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Biography:
Alexander Gardner started out as a reporter and editor for a newspaper in Glasgow, Scotland. He dreamed up a socialist society that he founded in Iowa, but never joined. He instead settled in New York and became Matthew Brady’s assistant. He managed Brady’s gallery in Washington D.C. until the American Civil War began in 1861. While working at another studio of Brady’s, Gardner produced many of the Potomac Army Photographs. In 1866, he published Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War that consisted of one hundred photographs of the Civil War done by himself and other artists including Timothy O’Sullivan and John Reekie. The book was unsuccessful and Gardener spent the remainder of his life living in and photographing the American West.

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