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My landscape tintype from John Coffer's farm in Dundee, NY combined with a dead Union soldier from the Civil War via one of Alexander Gardner's glass plate negatives from Antietam (1862). I was thinking along this line: image manipulation has been with us from the start - whether staging photos or enhancing them in the darkroom or (as we do now) in Photoshop. Alexander Gardner himself staged a shot at Gettysburg, moving a dead Confederate soldier about 40 yards to make his famous Rebel Sharpshooter image in the Devil's Den. He even arranged the rifle and cartridge box. Moving a soldier he photographed through time and pixels to 2009 was something of the same staging. In my Civil War Smash Up, I was following an instinct I've had with wet plate to weave in and out of historical period a

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