<p>Gathers a selection of Brady's battlefield photographs and portraits of politicians, soldiers, artists, and writers, and traces his career as a photographer</p>

Mathew Brady's Portrait of an Era

History

Brady, Mathew B.

Meredith, Roy

Americas

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Mathew Brady, one of the foremost early American photographers and one of the earliest war photographers, was "official photographer" for the Union Army in the Civil War. With his assistants and his horse-drawn photographic wagon, Brady accompanied the troops and recorded the war firsthand. His war pictures are among the greatest war photographs ever taken, and constitute a prized pictorial record of American history.A photographer much in demand by statesmen and celebrities, Brady amassed a gallery of distinguished portraits. Most famous of these is the "Brady Lincoln," the photograph used for the engraving of the Lincoln head on the five-dollar bill. There are even photographs of Brady himself. But the heart of the book is the Civil War photographs: Battle Smoke, Union Wounded at Fredericksburg, Burnside's Bridge over the Antietam, Death of a Rebel Sniper, Remains of the Dead at Chancellorsville, Embalming Surgeon at Work, Atlanta Ga. Just After Its Capture, and others. Meredith's text tells the story behind many of the photographs and gives a lively account of Brady's life and times.In this Dover edition almost all the photographic prints have been reproduced directly from negatives and photographs on file at the Library of Congress — they are sharper and clearer than the reproductions in the first edition; numbers for all negatives are now included — a great boon to Brady picture research; and corrections have been made in the attributions of some of the photographs.

Mr. Lincoln's camera man, Mathew B. Brady

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Dover Publications

World Of Mathew Brady: Portraits of the Civil War Period

Random House Value Publishing

Authors: Roy MeredithPublisher: Brooke House PublishersKeywords: period, civil, portraits, mathew, brady, worldPages: 240Published: 1976Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0912588055     ISBN-13: 9780912588056Binding: Hardcover (1976 Edition)List Price: Unknown

The world of Mathew Brady: Portraits of the Civil War period

Brooke House Publishers

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