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  Mathew Brady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brady was born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents.
Brady's early images were daguerreotypes, and he won many awards for his work; in the 1850's ambrotype photography became popular, which gave way to the albumen print, a paper photograph produced from large glass negatives most commonly used in the American Civil War photography.
Mathew Brady as an old man, photo taken shortly before his death.
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 Mathew Brady
Brady, for instance, was one of the first, if not the first, to use a large skylight as part of his photographic equipment.
Brady’s reputation was still further enhanced when he went abroad in 1851 to exhibit at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, the first international competition among daguerreotypists and photographers.
Brady himself was frequently in the field and on several occasions was under fire.
www.photo-seminars.com /Fame/mathew.htm   (1254 words)

  
 A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: BRADY, Mathew
Though Roger Fenton was the first to document war in photographs, Mathew Brady, who documented the American Civil War (1861-1865), was probably one of the greatest of photographic documentary photographers.
Brady is one of the oldest daguerreotype artists in the country, and one of the most successful, too.
A comment attributed to Brady is "The camera is the eye of history." He clearly saw his mission as that of a photographic historian, and our knowledge of this important era of American history is the better for it.
www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/brady.htm   (670 words)

  
 Mathew Brady's Portraits
Brady's critical role was to organize the sitter's pose, compose the setting, arrange the lighting and select the lenses - all in an effort to ensure the most flattering yet realistic likeness possible.
Brady prospered in the 1850s, operating out of increasingly fancy quarters on Broadway, with galleries lined with portraits of prominent Americans from all walks of life.
Brady himself spent relatively little time on battlefields, but he was the field general who organized the teams of operators and counseled them on what to photograph.
www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/brady.htm   (1871 words)

  
 Matthew Brady
The battle was a disaster for the Union Army and Brady came close to being captured by the enemy.
Brady is not operating himself, a failing eyesight precluding the possibility of his using the camera with any certainty.
Brady's proverbial enterprise is not to be questioned and his gallery is the most fashionable in the city.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAPbrady.htm   (1151 words)

  
 BookRags: Mathew B. Brady Biography
Brady sent 20 daguerreotypes to the Great Exhibition in London in 1851; they won him a medal and were greatly admired.
Perhaps the most famous of Brady's portraits was the standing figure of Abraham Lincoln taken at the time of his Cooper Union speech in 1861; Lincoln is reported to have said that the photograph and the speech put him in the White House.
Today Brady's vast and brilliant historical record is divided between the National Archives and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Although he maintained his Washington gallery, Brady never fully recovered from his financial disasters.
www.bookrags.com /biography/mathew-b-brady   (501 words)

  
 Mathew Brady   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mathew Brady's name is synonymous not only with pioneer photography, but also as an invaluable recorder of history.
Among those in the 1860's, Brady was famous for the technical advances he contributed to photography, as well as the pictures he took.
Brady said, "From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and women" (Sullivan 25).
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 Civil War Photographs: Mathew B. Brady--Biographical Note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mathew Brady arrived in New York City at the age of sixteen.
Brady soon acquired a reputation as one of America's greatest photographers -- producer of portraits of the famous.
In 1862, Brady shocked America by displaying his photographs of battlefield corpses from Antietam, posting a sign on the door of his New York gallery that read, "The Dead of Antietam." This exhibition marked the first time most people witnessed the carnage of war.
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 Harvard University Art Museums - Press releases, 1997
Mathew Brady (1823?-1896) sought to ennoble portrait photography as a means to promote civic virtue and unified national identity.
The exhibition is accompanied by the publication Mathew Brady and the Image of History by Mary Panzer, curator of photographs at National Portrait Gallery and curator of the exhibition.
Mathew Brady was born in Warren County, New York, around 1823 and arrived in New York City in the early 1840s, just as the city was emerging as the nation's cultural center.
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu /press/released1997/mathewbrady.html   (2603 words)

  
 Matthew Brady
Here Brady gained a tactical advantage that he would use during the war, for he was able to gain the respect of future Union and rebel generals alike, and had poised the neutrality that was necessary to picture both during their years of conflict.
Brady and Gardener capture him well, and it's hard to say that they were in competition to produce the 'better' image of Lincoln because of the distinct similarities in all of the shots taken.
Brady, when capturing the dead on the battlefields, not only captured this reality, but historically left a foundation for all historians to base their research and studies on how powerful of a war the Civil War was.
www.dickinson.edu /~osborne/404_98/whitep.htm   (7537 words)

  
 Mathew Brady and Photography During the Civil War - History Celebrities
Mathew Brady was the son of Irish immigrants, and was born in 1823 near Saratoga Springs, Warren County, New York.
Mathew Brady was buried in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. It is ironic, considering how badly he was treated after the war, that his vision and photography would become the total essence of America's visual impression of the Civil War.
Mathew Brady and his imaginativeness of documenting the conflict through photography, was probably the single most important nonmilitary event of the American Civil War.
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 Mathew Brady: A great chronicler of the American Civil War
Mathew Brady, the great American photographer of the Civil War period, regarded himself as a historian.
Brady then discovered the "cartes de visite," which were small images produced all at once by a camera with four lenses.
Though Brady was thoroughly pro-Union, he made no small-minded attempt to portray his enemies in an unfavorable light; this would have been contrary to his mission of chronicling the nation as a historian.
www.wsws.org /arts/1998/mar1998/brad-m12.shtml   (897 words)

  
 About Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady was a master photographer, and is responsible for most of the photographs made during the Civil War.
Lee was reluctant to pose for the photographs, but Brady had known the General since the Mexican War, and, with the co-operation of Mrs.
Mathew Brady as a Young Man. Photo taken upon his return from the Battle of Bull Run (1861)
www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/About%20Mathew%20Brady.htm   (815 words)

  
 Prints & Photographs Online Catalog - Civil War Photographs - About - Mathew Brady - Biographical Note
Brady acquired a reputation as one of America's greatest photographers -- producer of portraits of the famous.
Mathew Brady did not actually take many of the Civil War photographs attributed to him.
More of a project manager, he spent most of his time supervising his corps of traveling photographers, preserving their negatives and buying others from private photographers fresh from the battlefield, so that his collection would be as comprehensive as possible.
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 Brady of Broadway A New Play for One Character about Civil War photographer Mathew Brady
BRADY OF BROADWAY combines the powerful life-story of the great photographer with the immortal camera pictures that made him famous.
Brady is old and broke and plying his trade in a shabby studio above a train station in Washington, D.C. But he has his memories--of revealing portrait sessions with Lincoln, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and others.
And Brady is also preparing for renewed glory--with a slide-show of his famous Civil War photographs.
www.photographymuseum.com /brady2.html   (413 words)

  
 American Experience | The Time of the Lincolns | Americans at War
Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil War.
It was there that Brady was introduced to daguerreotypy, an early photographic process, and within several years he had opened his own studio on Broadway.
Brady was eager to establish his business and sought out the notable people of his day to pose for him.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lincolns/atwar/es_camera.html   (797 words)

  
 MATHEW BRADY by Alex K.
MATHEW BRADY by Alex K. Born in Warren County, New York, Mathew Brady lived in a family of seven, most of them Irish immigrants.
At that time most people thought of photography as science, but Mathew Brady showed a lot of people it was a form of art.
Mathew Brady is one of Americas most famous photographers and his pictures are still known today and always will be.
www.brooklynexpedition.org /ps321/brady/alexk.htm   (756 words)

  
 Mathew Brady   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mathew B. Brady (1823-1896) was born in Warren County, New York, and became interested in art when he met the portrait painter William Page in Sarasota.
Yet the cost of this enterprise bankrupted Brady, and part of his collection was sold at auction to the government, and part went to the supply company of E. and H. Anthony.
Brady would continue to make photographs for the remainder of his life, but died in poverty in 1896.
history.sandiego.edu /gen/media/brady.html   (425 words)

  
 CNN - Gallery show pays homage to Civil War photographer - January 3, 1998
Brady's work introduced a new perspective into politicking -- for the first time the voter could see a photographic likeness of the candidate.
Brady later made Lincoln's inaugural photograph and photographed the president's funeral procession.
Brady received $25,000 from Congress for title to his collection of negatives and prints in 1875.
www.cnn.com /US/9801/03/mathew.brady   (258 words)

  
 Mathew Brady   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mathew Brady as an old man photo shortly before his death.
Of special interest is the section reproducing Brady's post-war lantern slide lecture book, with unedited captions, for a program that was to have...
Brady's Civil War: A Collection of memorable Civil War Images photographed by Mathew Brady and his assistants
www.freeglossary.com /Mathew_Brady   (248 words)

  
 Mathew B. Brady - Civil War Photographer
Mathew Brady was born in Warren County, New York, the son of Irish immigrant farmers.
Brady is thought to have learned about the daguerreotype, the first practical photographic process, from American artist and inventor Samuel F. Morse, who was a friend of Page's.
By 1844 Brady had opened the first of several photographic studios in New York City, where he began making portraits of many of the notable figures of his day.
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 Brady-Handy Collection(Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
In the mid-nineteenth century, Mathew Brady operated one of the most prominent portrait studios in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Library's Brady-Handy negative collection includes work produced by Brady's New York and Washington, D.C., studios during the 1850s through the early 1900s.
Although he was acknowledged as a master of the daguerreotype, Brady did not usually operate the camera himself because of his poor eyesight.
Brady's most important contribution to American history was his documentation of the Civil War.
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 Mathew brady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Mathew Brady Online
Mathew Brady at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Mathew Brady at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Portrait of Martin Van Buren
All images and text on this Mathew Brady page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Brady--   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While most people considered photography to be a science, and photographers merely skilled tradesmen, Mathew Brady used his camera to forge strong ties to the world of art.
In the mid-1840s, Brady daguerreotyped many artists, including landscape painter Thomas Cole and portraitist Charles Loring Elliott (who returned the favor by painting Brady in 1857).
Brady worked closely with painters G.P.A. Healy and Francis Bicknell Carpenter, who used his photographs to add precision and accuracy to their portraits of national leaders.
www.npg.si.edu /exh/brady/art/artdoc.htm   (156 words)

  
 Whitman, Dickinson, and Mathew Brady's Photos
Some of the most haunting visual images of the Civil War are the photographs made by Mathew Brady's assistants.
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson both saw the Brady photographs (or engravings of them) and wrote poetry that also captured the sobering aftereffects of butchery that took place on the battlefields.
It is worth considering whether their war poetry was influenced by the Brady photographs.
www.iath.virginia.edu /fdw/volume2/folsom/brady.html   (267 words)

  
 Definition of Mathew Brady
Brady was born in Warren County, New York as the son of Irish immigrants.
His efforts to document the Civil War on a grand scale by bringing his photographic studio right onto the battlefields earned Brady his place in history.
In 1862, Brady presented an exhibition of photographs from the Battle of Antietam in his New York gallery entitled, "The Dead of Antietam." Many of the images in this presentation were graphic photographs of corpses, making the presentation totally new to America.
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 Mathew Brady Introduction
His handsomely appointed galleries in New York and Washington attracted a steady stream of customers—from American Presidents to foreign dignitaries—who came to have their own portraits expertly made by one of Brady’s highly skilled operators and to view at their leisure the hundreds of photographs of prominent personalities that adorned Brady’s gallery walls.
While many photographic studios of the period attracted patrons by displaying portraits of the famous, Brady’s collection was indisputably the largest and most comprehensive.
But beyond its use as a publicity tool, Mathew Brady’s distinguished collection served to manifest his own sense of historical mission as well.
www.civilwar.si.edu /brady_intro.html   (259 words)

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