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 e American Civil War
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DESCRIPTION:The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to a hybr
 id event on Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. PT. Organi
 zed in conjunction with Eastern Europe and Beyond: Photographic Albums Rev
 ealed\, in person and online attendees will be encouraged to engage with t
 he exhibition in expansive terms and to consider how photographic evidence
  portrays the human condition throughout history.\n\nOut of the horrible l
 oss of life of the American Civil War\, an unlikely hero emerged—a photo
 grapher who had no idea that he was portraying the vast armies of the dead
 \, ennobling and gracing them as individual souls lost to the world\, but 
 who kept at it\, day after day\, year after year\, decade after decade\, u
 ntil his dying day—making a heaven that fell to the ground. In this talk
 \, Alexander Nemerov will take the audience into the art and singular poet
 ic grace of Wilson Bentley\, the greatest photographer of snowflakes\nwho 
 ever lived.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nAlexander Nemerov is the Carl and Mari
 lynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities\, Stanford Univ
 ersity. He has published widely on different photographers\; he has a spec
 ial interest in the 1940s and has written about photography and films of t
 he Second World War in several books and essays. Every fall Nemerov teache
 s a popular course on art\, “How to Look at Art and Why.”
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LOCATION:Hoover Tower\, Milbank Reading Room (T108)
SUMMARY:Wilson Bentley’s Army of Souls: A Photographic Requiem of the Ame
 rican Civil War
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 ls-a-photographic-requiem-of-the-american-civil-war
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