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Museum Stan Klos
Some of his "mug" shots
self-portrait
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Alexander Gardner was
a Scottish-born amateur chemist who was hired by Brady. He eventually managed
Brady's Washington gallery. When Gardner clashed with Brady over by-line
rights, he left and started his own crew. Like Brady, however, Gardner shot few of the
pictures himself; he set up the scenes and gave directions. He did process the.
photographs. He produced a Photographic Sketchbook of the War (2 vol. -
$150). Just a few were sold. In Washington after the war he ran a portrait
gallery where he found a new use for photographs: he compiled a rogue's
gallery for the Washington police. 
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