Alexander Gardner was born in 1821. He was a reporter and newspaper editor before he was a photographer. He desired to create a semi-socialistic colony in America when he was young, finally, he decided to send his families and friends to Iowa, but he never lived there. In 1856, Gardner and his family members moved to the United States, he stayed in New York, and he worked for Brady, eventually, he was managing Brady’s Washington, D.C, gallery until the American Civil War broke out in 1861. As Brady always occupied others’ photographs as himself, Gardner left his firm in 1862. In May 1863, Gardner and his brother James opened their own studio in Washington, D.C.
During the Army of the Potomac, Gardner was a chief army photographer, so three-quarters of the campaign pictures were taken by him. In 1866, he published the first collection of Civil War pictures, Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Gardner worked more than one hundred photographs and he also got some helpers, including Timothy O’Sullivan and John Reekie. After the war was over, Gardner started his journey and photographing along the way.
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