Mathew Brady

Mathew Brady

Author: Robert Wilson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1620402041

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The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the “father of American photography.” Mathew Brady's attention to detail, flair for composition, and technical mastery helped establish the photograph as a thing of value. In the 1840s and '50s, “Brady of Broadway” photographed such dignitaries as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Horace Greeley, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind. But it was during the Civil War that Brady's photography became an epochal part of American history. The Civil War was the first war in history to leave a detailed photographic record, and Brady knew better than anyone the dual power of the camera to record and excite, to stop a moment in time and preserve it. More than ten thousand war images are attributed to the Brady studio. But as Wilson shows, while Brady himself accompanied the Union army to the first major battle at Bull Run, he was so shaken by the experience that throughout the rest of the war he rarely visited battlefields except well before or after a major battle, instead sending teams of photographers to the front. Mathew Brady is a gracefully written and beautifully illustrated biography of an American legend-a businessman, a suave promoter, a celebrated portrait artist, and, most important, a historian who chronicled America during the gravest moments of the nineteenth century.


Mathew Brady

Mathew Brady

Author: Elizabeth Van Steenwyk

Publisher: Franklin Watts

Published: 1997-09-01

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780531158517

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A biography of the pioneering photographer, who is known for his unique portrayal of the Civil War, as well as for portraits of such personalities as Lincoln, Grant, Lee, and others.


Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera

Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera

Author: James D. Horan

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-10

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780353277922

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Shooting Lincoln

Shooting Lincoln

Author: Nicholas J.C. Pistor

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0306824701

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They took the most memorable photographs of the Civil War. Now their long rivalry was about to climax with the spilled blood of an American president--an event that would usher in a new age of modern media. Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. With their photographs they brought the Civil War -- and all of its terrible suffering -- into Northern living rooms. By the end of the war, they were locked in fierce competition. And when the biggest story of the century happened--the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--their paparazzi-like competition intensified. Brady, nearly blind and hoping to rekindle his wartime photographic magic, and Gardner, his former understudy, raced against each other to the theater where Lincoln was shot, to the autopsy table where Booth was identified, and to the gallows where the conspirators were hanged. Whoever could take the most sensational -- or ghastly -- photograph would achieve lasting camera-lens fame. Compelling and riveting, Shooting Lincoln tells the astonishing, behind-the-photographs story of these two media pioneers who raced to "shoot" the late president and the condemned conspirators. The photos they took electrified the country, fed America's growing appetite for tabloid-style sensationalism in the news, and built the media we know today.


Civil War Photos

Civil War Photos

Author: Mathew Brady

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9780486281322

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Astonishingly clear, detailed images recall the drama, agony, and tedium of conflict. Portraits of Lincoln, Grant, Lee, and other notables, plus scenes of landmarks, camps, and battlefields. Captions, notes. 24 cards.


Mathew Brady Records the Civil War

Mathew Brady Records the Civil War

Author: Kari A. Cornell

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781532110160

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Cover -- Title Page -- Credits -- Contents -- One: The Dead of Antietam Shocks the Nation -- Two: Mathew Brady's Rise to Fame -- Three: On a Mission to Capture History -- Four: In the Field -- Five: In the Studio -- Six: Photographing the President -- Seven: Photography After the War -- Eight: Creating a National Archive -- Photgraphing the Civil War -- Glossary -- Additional Resources -- Source Notes -- Index -- About the Author


Mathew Brady

Mathew Brady

Author: Robert Wilson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 162040205X

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A portrait of the visual historian illuminates his role in establishing photography as a valued documenting tool, analyzing his portraits of period dignitaries and his self-sacrificing effort to capture images of the Civil War.