Mathew Brady

Portraits of a Nation

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Robert Wilson ISBN: 9781620402047
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: August 6, 2013
Imprint: Bloomsbury USA Language: English
Author: Robert Wilson
ISBN: 9781620402047
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: August 6, 2013
Imprint: Bloomsbury USA
Language: English

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 masteryhelped 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 isa 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 thegravest moments of the nineteenth century.

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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 masteryhelped 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 isa 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 thegravest moments of the nineteenth century.

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