On this date in 1926, National Geographic Magazine published color underwater photographs; a photographic first. This wasn’t the first attempt at underwater photography, however; photographers had been taking pictures below the waves since 1856.
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Alexander Gardner photographed the hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators on July 7, 1865. This image and a pair of Gardner’s portraits of two of the men who are about to be executed are the subjects of this Photo History Summer School session.
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Above Left: Alexander Gardner – The “cracked glass” Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, February 1865
Above Center: Alexander Gardner – Portrait of Lincoln Conspirator David Herold
Above Right: Alexander Gardner – Portrait of Lincoln Conspirator Lewis Payne (AKA Lewis Powell – his original name)
Above: Alexander Gardner – The Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators, July 7, 1863
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Powerful and horrific photographs of the effects of the Battle of Gettysburg by Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner are the subject of today’s Photo History Summer School.
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Above: Timothy O’Sullivan – A Harvest of Death – July, 1863
Above: Alexander Gardner – The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, July, 1863
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