Trachtenberg personalizes past with photos
An antiquated photo of a nineteenth-century American soldier clad in gray has the power to breathe new life into a long-gone era by personalizing the past, Civil War photography scholar Alan Trachtenberg said in a workshop at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Tuesday.
Trachtenberg, professor emeritus of English and American studies, explored the very nature of historical photographs, which he said exist as relics that shed light on the past. During the workshop, which was attended by 25 students and professors, he discussed and read aloud from his paper “Civil War...
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