New Orleans 1867

by Gary A. Van Zante, Theodore Lilienthal (Photographer)

This work brings together all the surviving photographs - 126 of the original 150 - from the remarkable series taken of New Orleans in 1867 by the city's most important photographer, Theodore Lilienthal.

Genres: History

304 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2008

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful reference research book with period photos and accompanying essays of New Orleans. This is a book I will go back to again and again for insight into the 19th-century history of America's most powerful and diverse Pre-Civil War city.

[Eric Byrd]

For future reading in American history, I really need to track down more lavish exhibition companions like this. Each photo is accompanied by a mini-essay--an education, a further vista. Lilienthal understook one of the first municipally-sponsored photographic surveys of an American city. This book contains that portfolio, plus work from the rest of his career. Here's New Orleans from so many angles: panoramas from high perches, cards de viste of notables, firehouses, cemetaries, busy wharves and paddle-wheel shipping, seedy streets, loungers and gin mills, as well as composite photographs, one of which, of the orphans of Confederate General John Bell Hood surrounded by images of their late parents, victims of the city's 1879 typhus outbreak, verges on spirit photography. I need to find books like this for Muybridge and Matthew Brady.