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War Photography for the Public:
Today, pictures can be shared with millions in an instant, but in the 1860s photographic dissemination was decidedly slower. Photographs were distributed as printed copies or via newspapers, which in itself was an involved process.
Photographers exposed prints from wet-plate negatives on their rooftops and mailed them to interested buyers. Photographs could not even be reproduced in newspapers and had to be converted to engravings or woodcuts by specialized artists. |