Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Melissa Winn of the American Battlefield Trust provides opening remarks for her lecture about the rise of portrait photography during the Civil War.

There are a few verifiable truths about Civil War photographer Timothy O’Sullivan. He was born in 1840 in Ireland. He apprenticed in the studio of famed photographer Matthew Brady, and he took what he ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading ...

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered a single photograph be taken of John Wilkes Booth's corpse, says Bob Zeller, president of the Center for Civil War Photography. Most experts agree that famed ...

WEST HARTFORD, CT — A West Hartford university is hosting a historically significant photography exhibition about a period in ...

The actress says her "biggest fear" was "looking like I didn’t know what I was doing with the camera" Kirsten Dunst took playing a war photographer extremely seriously. “I just carried that camera ...

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Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly 30 years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries. His black-and-white ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Civil War—director Alex Garland’s haunting look at a future deadly conflict in a dystopian ...