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Echoes of the Civil War
Michael Falco
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Description for Echoes of the Civil War
hardcover. A fresh and surprising look at the American Civil War through pinhole camera photographs of sesquicentennial battlefield reenactments Num Pages: 288 pages, 150 color photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 267 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1359.
In 2011, Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battles—from the First Manassas, Antietam, and Chancellorsville to Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Appomattox. But rather than shooting these historic re-creations in high-definition, Falco opted for a different, older medium: a pinhole camera. This antebellum photographic technology, shot from an on-the-ground perspective, captures these battlefields in a way that feels more “real” and fully realized than even the famous daguerrotypes made during the war itself. In Falco's transporting photographs, the smoke-filled battle reenactments become blurred and dreamlike, echoing the sentiments ... Read more
In 2011, Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battles—from the First Manassas, Antietam, and Chancellorsville to Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Appomattox. But rather than shooting these historic re-creations in high-definition, Falco opted for a different, older medium: a pinhole camera. This antebellum photographic technology, shot from an on-the-ground perspective, captures these battlefields in a way that feels more “real” and fully realized than even the famous daguerrotypes made during the war itself. In Falco's transporting photographs, the smoke-filled battle reenactments become blurred and dreamlike, echoing the sentiments ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The Countryman Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Woodstock, United States
ISBN
9781581573800
SKU
V9781581573800
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Ref
99-15
About Michael Falco
Michael Falco is an award-winning photojournalist who lives and works in New York City. A regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic, Falco’s previous books include Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America’s Main Street. Many of his images are on permanent display in the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and his panoramic work documenting the Fresh Kills ... Read more
Reviews for Echoes of the Civil War
" A Civil War enthusiast since his childhood, photographer Michael Falco set out on a four-year, battlefield-to-battlefield odyssey coinciding with the war’s 150th anniversary. The result is the wonderfully haunting Echoes of the Civil War: Capturing Battlefields through a Pinhole Camera (Countryman Press, $35, 288 pages, ISBN 9781581573800). “Soldiers’ journals and memoirs describe the battlefields as dream-like,” Falco writes, “and ... Read more