Alexander Gardner
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Gardner split with Brady after the success of his Antietam photographs. The signage gives a full range of Gardner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s services, showing how he catered to the market for photographic images; the main sign reads \u00e2\u0080\u009cNews of the War.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Not as flamboyantly costumed as in his first self-portrait, this image of Alexander Gardner shows him as a workingman, which was his family\u00e2\u0080\u0099s heritage back in Scotland. Gardner\u00e2\u0080\u0099s proficiency as a photographer was based in part on his manual dexterity; he was a master at coating the glass-plate negatives with collodion, which formed the plate\u00e2\u0080\u0099s light-sensitive emulsion. By the beginnings of 1863 James Gardner was working with his brother in Washington."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Timothy O\u00e2\u0080\u0099Sullivan (1840\u00e2\u0080\u00931882) and his brother-in-law, William Pywell (1843\u00e2\u0080\u00931886), also got their start with Brady. O\u00e2\u0080\u0099Sullivan teamed up with Gardner both at Antietam and Gettysburg and later had a successful career on his own. After the war, Pywell traveled west with Gardner to photograph the plains and the Native Americans living there."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. 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