Untitled – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Untitled. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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This untitled image is a glass negative made in 1860, the year before the Civil War began, so it dates from the uneasy months when sectional tensions were rising but fighting had not yet started. It was produced by the wet collodion process, in which a photographer coated a glass plate, exposed it, and developed it while the emulsion was still wet, a method that gave sharp detail but demanded speed and careful handling in the field. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, is credited with the plate, which belongs to a larger group of Civil War-era glass negatives held by the Library of Congress. Because its record does not name the scene, the image is best understood as a document of its moment, when photography was becoming a common way to record public life.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,463 × 5,120 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51331 |
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