The Destruction of Hood's Ordnance Train: A Love Story | Professor Alexander Nemerov

The Department of Art & Art History presents The Destruction of Hood’s Ordnance Train: A Love Story, a lecture by Professor Alexander Nemerov, Chair and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities. 

How is something that is not there still present in a photograph?  What is the importance of seeing a photograph in this way?

This lecture is free and open to the public with advance registration

Image: George Barnard, Destruction of Hood’s Ordnance Train, 1864. Plate 44 from Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign (1866). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970.  

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