Alexander Gardner
(1821-1882)
Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 – December 10, 1882) was a Scottish turn Scottish-American photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession. He is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and of the conspirators and the execution of the participants in the Lincoln assassination plot.
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A visual chronicle of the Civil War, created through the collaborative efforts of eleven photographers to preserve pivotal moments of 19th-century American history.
Books
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War
(Dover Publications, 1959)
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865
(Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002)
Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America
(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020)