File:Alexander Gardner, by Mathew Brady Studio, circa 1861.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionAlexander Gardner, by Mathew Brady Studio, circa 1861.jpg | Alexander Gardner, by Mathew Brady Studio, circa 1861, Albumen silver prints, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Note: n this self-portrait taken at Mathew Brady’s Washington studio, Alexander Gardner presents himself wearing the garb of a mountain man or trapper, sporting buckskins and a fur hat; Gardner’s trademark full, ungroomed beard only adds to the frontiersman image. Gardner holds a bow and arrow while standing on Indian rugs. The image captures America’s enduring fascination with the West and adopting the garb of Native peoples. It also shows Gardner, a man about whom we know little, in disguise, hiding himself in a fictional frontier persona. Although he is acting a role, Gardner, whose family had bought land in Iowa in the antebellum period, was genuinely interested in the western lands and the fate of the Indians. In the 1860s he began his project of photographing the western tribal delegations when they came to Washington. After the Civil War he went west to photograph Indians on their native grounds. | |||||||
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circa 1861 date QS:P,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Source | https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2002.86 | |||||||
Author | Mathew Brady Studio | |||||||
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Short title | NPG.2002.86 |
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Date and time of data generation | 9 September 2014 |
Headline | by Mathew Brady Studio |
Source | digitized by Mark Gulezian/NPG |
Copyright holder | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA |
Image title | Alexander Gardner |
Person depicted | Alexander Gardner |
JPEG file comment | Alexander Gardner |
IIM version | 4 |
Lens used | HC 120 II |
Serial number of camera | SP33506018 |
Special instructions | This image will display properly on a monitor calibrated to 5500˚K, 100 cd/m², and L* tonal response curve using the embedded working space profile |
Date and time of digitizing | 13:00, 9 September 2014 |
File change date and time | 11:52, 4 November 2020 |
Date metadata was last modified | 11:52, 4 November 2020 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Macintosh) |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:048011740720681183D1DE4D5132C5C5 |