Alexander Gardner byl skotský a americký fotograf. Je známý především svými dokumentárními snímky z Americké občanské války a portréty amerického prezidenta Abrahama Lincolna. Wikipedia
Zdá se, že Gardner nebyl spokojen s kompozicí, nechal těla různě zpřeházet a vytvářel si tak vlastní verzi reality. Rayovu analýzu ještě rozšířil v roce 1975 William Frassanito. [2 ]
Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 – December 10, 1882) was a Scottish-American photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession.
By Gardner's own accounts he was born in Wisconsin to a Scottish father and Anglo-Spanish mother. Baron von Hügel met Gardner in 1835 and claimed he was Irish.
Alexander Gardner was a photographer of the American Civil War and of the American West during the latter part of the 19th century. Gardner probably moved to the United States in 1856, when he was hired by the photographer Mathew B.
Alexander Gardner was a Scottish photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, and became well known for his documentation of the Civil War.
Author of The Memorial War Book, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the Civil War, War Photographs Taken on the Battlefields of the Civil War, Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States…
Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner made history by documenting the battlefield carnage at Antietam in September 1862. He also took more portraits of Abraham Lincoln than anyone else, and could be considered a pioneer of news…
Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner (or Gardiner) (Gordana Khan) (1785–1877) was a traveller, soldier and mercenary. He travelled to Afghanistan and Punjab and served in various military positions in the region.