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PHOTOGRAPHER .. UNDER FIRE is the story of one of the early entrepreneurs of photography. Today daguerreotypes & unfaded portraits by George S. Cook, PHOTOGRAPHER, ex-associate of Matthew Brady, prove his claim he could "find beauty in any face". From within Fort Sumter, George S. Cook, CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN, captured his famous picture of ironclads in action and the burst of an exploding shell. This Conneticut Yankee set out in his late teens to travel the Mississippi to New Orleans where he began, as a street artist, his career which would include all phases of the art of photography. Family diaries, photo collections, recipe books, letters and papers collected by his grandaughter provided the basis for beginning this book. Endnotes, bibliography, index & Cook's photographs, some never before published.
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Jack C. Ramsay, Jr., an award winning author of previous books, is the son of his Virginia mother, great grandson of her famous grandfather, George S. Cook. Jack's uncle inherited (and continued) the famous Cook studio and the collection of photographs which were placed in the Valentine Museum (Richmond, Virginia) and the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). A graduate of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he received his Ph.D. for his work in historical research, he also studied at the University of Texas, Davidson College, North Carolina (B.S. degree), Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (B.D. degree).
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