The Bendann Brothers and Civil War Photography

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This blogpost was researched and written by our Fall 2021 intern, Lauren Klebonis. Lauren is a sophomore at Arizona State University majoring in Art History. During the tumultuous times of the United States Civil War (1861-1865), over 3,000 photographers made it their mission to visually record nearly every major battle of the war’s four year duration. From gruesome scenes of battlefields laid barren to the daily activities of soldiers, photographers were determined to catalogue the detriments o