ABSTRACT
While Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables paints a grim picture of the emerging modern relationship between man and the photograph, not even Hawthorne could foretell how the Civil War would redefine this relationship and determine the future ways that we, as an American people, would look at the photograph. In a departure from the previous chapter’s concern with analyzing the history of nineteenth-century pastoralism, this chapter analyses two texts, George Barnard’s Photographic Views of Sher man’s Campaign (1866) and Gardner’s Sketch Book (1866). In a combination of words and visual images, these hybrid texts interpret the Civil War as a profound restructuring of the ways Americans theorized their relationship to the camera and to their national landscape. It is this complex restructuring of the relationship between man, photograph, and national landscape that will concern this chapter.
