Timothy O'Sullivan
Group of Confederate Prisoners at Fairfax Court-House
1863
Rare for its human subjects, the photograph provides a dignified portrait of Confederate prisoners while demonstrating photography's role in documenting the war's human cost.
- Medium
- Albumen print, pl. 34 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
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