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Besides taking photos while with Union armies, Gardner's vision included other important photographs. His photographs of Lincoln and Seward assassination conspirators were powerful portraits.
These included portraits of Abraham Lincoln, such as this one from February 1865.
Thomas Paine, would be assassin of Secretary of State Seward.
Gardner's series of rapid fire photographs of the conspirators hanging at the Washington Arsenal (now Ft. Leslie McNair) were an early example of event photojournalism. |