 It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield to look over these views, that all the emotions excited by the actual sight of the stained and sordid scene, strewed with rags and wrecks, came back to us, and we buried them in the recesses of our cabinet...  Soundings from the Atlantic - Pagina 267di Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 468 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Ed Folsom - 1997 - 220 pagine
...too painful, too real, and they finally needed to be excluded from the album of our familiar sight: "We buried them in the recesses of our cabinet as...remains of the dead they too vividly represented" (1863, 12-13). The new images were too radical, too vivid, in their representation; they too violently... | |
 | David E. Shi - 1996 - 410 pagine
...purchased copies of Brady's photographs of the same bloody landscape at Antietam. "It was," he wrote, "so nearly like visiting the battle-field to look...remains of the dead they too vividly represented." The camera's "terrible mementoes" portrayed war as "a repulsive, brutal, sickening, hideous thing.... | |
 | Bill Brown - 1996 - 358 pagine
...the photograph. Holmes, too, however arrested by the pictures, could not bear to linger over them: "We buried them in the recesses of our cabinet as...the mutilated remains of the dead they too vividly represented."64 By 1891, when Brady was interviewed by the New York World, it was Brady the portraitist... | |
 | John Huddleston - 2002 - 212 pagine
...regard to their advancement of the medium of photography. Furthermore, due to their painful referent, "we buried them in the recesses of our cabinet as...remains of the dead they too vividly represented," wrote Oliver Wendeil Holmes Sr. in 1863 about Mathew Brady's New York exhibition of Antietam photographs... | |
 | Miles Orvell - 2003 - 260 pagine
...Stereoscopic views would have been es pec ¡ally vivid. ghastly rows for burial were alive but yesterday ... It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield to...remains of the dead they too vividly represented.' Holmes's reaction points to the vividness of the images themselves, but their shock to the general... | |
 | Mary Warner Marien - 2006 - 566 pagine
...thrown together in careless heaps or ranged in ghastly rows for burial were alive but yesterday. ... It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield to...remains of the dead they too vividly represented. ''" When President Lincoln removed General George McClellan as head of the Union army, Alexander Gardner... | |
 | 1863 - 834 pagine
...accuracy of some of our own sketches in a paper published in the December number of this magazine. The " ditch " is figured, still encumbered with the...imperial master with fanciful portraits of what they are supto be. The honest sunshine " Is Nature's sternest painter, yet the best " ; and that gives us, even... | |
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