Civil War images subject of Oct. 20 lecture at Cleo Redd Fisher Museum

LOUDONVILLE — The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum will host a free public lecture exploring how images ceaselessly modified the way in which Americans seen struggle.

Titled “Photography During the Civil War,” this system will probably be introduced by historian Mark Holbrook on Monday, Oct. 20 within the museum’s Lecture Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with this system starting at 7 p.m.

The American Civil War marked the primary main battle to be extensively documented via images.

For the primary time, photographers left the confines of their studios and ventured into the sphere, hauling heavy tools to seize scenes of camp life, troopers, fortifications, and the aftermath of battle.

These haunting photos introduced the fact of struggle into American houses, ceaselessly altering public notion and pushing photographic know-how ahead.

Holbrook’s presentation will discover how images formed opinion, preserved the faces of bizarre troopers, and produced a number of the most iconic photos in American historical past.

Mark Holbrook just lately retired as govt director of the Marion Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Previously, he served as advertising and marketing director and Civil War historian on the Ohio History Connection, and he has labored for greater than 20 years as a guide for tourism and history-based organizations.

A local of Ohio and graduate of The Ohio State University, Holbrook is the proprietor of History is Personal, a consulting agency specializing in heritage vacation spot improvement.

He can also be the editor of The Buckeye Vanguard concerning the forty ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and writer of The Haven: A Light within the Darkness (2023).

Holbrook is well-known to Civil War audiences, having served as a reenactor and Union officer for 28 years at websites together with Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Richmond, and Shiloh.

He additionally coordinated navy scenes for the movie Light of Freedom (2013), appeared in Wings of the Wind (2015), and has been featured on WOSU Television’s Columbus Neighborhoods and Mysteries on the Museum on the Travel Channel.

The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum, positioned in Loudonville, serves as a neighborhood useful resource for analysis, studying, and historic dialogue.

The museum provides free admission and quite a lot of academic packages all year long, preserving and sharing the wealthy historical past of the Mohican space.

Operated with none tax funding, the museum depends fully on donations, memberships, and neighborhood help to proceed its mission. Admission to the lecture is free. For extra info, go to www.crfmuseum.com or name 419 994-4050.