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Photographers often communicate through their pictures. Although the camera lens views the world impartially, the photographer constantly judges, deciding what to photograph and how to photograph it. (“Art” Encarta). The Civil War was the first time that phot ....

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.... would mix chemicals and pour them on a clean glass plate. After the chemicals were given time to evaporate, the glass plate would be sensitized by being immersed --in darkness-- in a bath solution. Then placed in a holder, the plate would then be inserted into the camera, which had been previously positioned and focused by the other photographer (Applebee 479). After the picture had been taken the photographer had to rush to develop the plate in the traveling darkroom wagon. The photograph had to be treated with care after development, tough on the battlefield. The best known pictorial records of the Civil War are the photographs commissioned by Ma ....