LEADER 00000pam 2200337 i 4500 003 DLC 005 20171204120920.0 008 170703s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 2017031093 020 9780306824692 (hardcover : alk. paper) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 092 973.7092|bPIS 100 1 Pistor, Nicholas J. C.,|eauthor. 245 10 Shooting Lincoln :|bMathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and the race to photograph the story of the century / |cNicholas J.C. Pistor. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York, NY :|bDa Capo,|c2017. 300 vii, 223 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index. 520 Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. With their photographs they brought the Civil War--and all of its terrible suffering--into Northern living rooms. By the end of the war, they were locked in fierce competition. And when the biggest story of the century happened--the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--their paparazzi-like competition intensified. Brady, nearly blind and hoping to rekindle his wartime photographic magic, and Gardner, his former understudy, raced against each other to the theater where Lincoln was shot, to the autopsy table where Booth was identified, and to the gallows where the conspirators were hanged. Whoever could take the most sensational--or ghastly--photograph would achieve lasting camera-lens fame. Compelling and riveting, Shooting Lincoln tells the astonishing, behind- the-photographs story of these two media pioneers who raced to "shoot" the late president and the condemned conspirators. The photos they took electrified the country, fed America's growing appetite for tabloid-style sensationalism in the news, and built the media we know today. 600 10 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865|xAssassination. 600 10 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865|xAssassination|xPress coverage. 600 10 Brady, Mathew B.,|dapproximately 1823-1896. 600 10 Gardner, Alexander,|d1821-1882. 650 0 Photojournalists|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century.
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