The Spur Question

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(02-08-2018 10:15 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  Just a comment re Brady's photograph ... I recall when visiting New York a few years back seeing an exhibition of Civil War memorabilia. Somewhere I read that photographers of that time were known to re-arrange the battlefield scenes (and bodies, I'm afraid) to suit a "better" picture. I obviously have no idea if Brady did this or if he the curtain etc in the theatre had been tidied up.

Brady was known for rearranging his subjects on the battlefields. I believe that I read somewhere that one of his most famous scenes is the "staged" one of the dead in Devil's Den at Gettysburg.

In the case of Ford's, I believe the object was to return the scene to what it would have been at the moment of the assassination for the 1865 version of CSI?? Forum member Wesley Harris will be speaking on the subject of investigation of the crime at that time - what was done right and what was done wrong - at the Surratt conference in April.