A photo of Walt Whitman looking out a window.

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This and other Whitman photographs from this period would seem to be classic examples of photographer W. Kurtz's "Rembrandt" style of light and shadow, a style Kurtz pioneered in 1867. Whitman's "attitude and aspect" [is] here suggestive of "the shadow of the national catastrophe, which was to crush him as well as so many thousand others . . . already falling upon him and darkening his life."

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The infamous butterfly photo-portrait: in touch with nature?

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Whitman's two fists (photo F. Pearsall, c:a 1870)

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" My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle...." (Photo G. Cox, 1887)

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Whitman's comment about this 1867 photograph,taken by Matthew Brady:

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