Here's sorta the jist of what I'm doing for our research.
I'm hoping to focus primarily on photography during the Civil War. My question is what impact (as a whole) did photography have during the Civil War? I know there is a famous portrait taken of Abraham Lincoln during this time, so I'll discuss that topic. I am interested people's reactions from seeing portraits of dead bodies. Those two topics are where I will start and I'm hoping to find many other areas on how photography impacted everyone and the culture during that time.
So what I do already know are types of photography and printing done back in that era. I know the general idea of the impact on a few photos during that time as well. However, I don't exactly remember the names of specific things, but I am certain I will find that out. My plan is to gather a decent variety of photographs (including the few I already know about) and discuss the impact. However, I'm not sure if I'm going to be comparing and contrasting them, or just going down a list explaining the impacts it had on people. Or if there is an even better approach.
I know that a good beginning for the paper is to discuss the start of photography during this era it's just the middle and end where I feel like I'm going to have the most trouble.
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ReplyDeleteI've narrowed down my topic finally and am going to be doing some work on our newer armed drone aircraft and their ethical delima and whatnot. bad news now your art is probably not going to be as useful for my research. In any case I wish you luck and if you need any ideas or want to bounce some of someone just let me know. I look forward to your project it should be interesting.
This seems like it will be a pretty good research topic. It seems like it something that you are interested in, which seems to me like it would make the actual writing process that much easier. This is one topic that I know very little to nothing about. I hope that you find this an enjoyable topic to research.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting subject since this was around the same time era that photography was becoming more mainstream. You should also consider the social impact that photography had on the Civil war and it's influence on public opinion.
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