Mathew Brady Records the Civil War

Mathew Brady Records the Civil War
Author: Kari A. Cornell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Photographers
ISBN: 9781532110160

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

Civil War Witness

Civil War Witness
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0756546931

Chronicles the Civil War using photographs taken by Mathew Brady and his employees.

Mathew Brady

Mathew Brady
Author: Robert Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1620402041

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.

Brady's Civil War Journal

Brady's Civil War Journal
Author: Theodore P. Savas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1510756949

“My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.” —Mathew Brady Mathew Brady and his team of assistants risked their lives to capture up-close images of the fury of the American Civil War and its aftermath. Brady actually got so close to the action during the First Battle of Bull Run that he only narrowly avoided capture. Brady's Civil War Journal chronicles the events of the war by showcasing a selection of Brady's moving, one-of-a-kind images and describing each in terms of its significance. Brady’s team not only captured thousands of portraits of the combatants, the generals, the fighting men, the sick, the dead, and the dying, but also documented the infrastructure of the war machine itself, recording images of artillery pieces, the early railroads, and extraordinary engineering feats. The text by Theodore P. Savas, an expert on the Civil War, adds context to Brady's memorable photographs, creating an unrivaled visual account of the most costly conflict in American history as it unfolded. His unique record of the war gives modern readers a fascinating insight into the terrible maelstrom that shaped our nation.

Civil War Photos

Civil War Photos
Author: Mathew Brady
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 16
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780486281322

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.

Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Mathew B. Brady

Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Mathew B. Brady
Author: Roy Meredith
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780486230214

This book tells of Mathew B. Brady, a Civil War photographer, with over 300 reproductions of his work.

Photo by Brady

Photo by Brady
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher: Atheneum
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Retells the Civil War through the eyes of photographer Mathew Brady and other field photographers as they record a brutal and deadly time.

Mathew Brady

Mathew Brady
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766030237

Through his specialized techniques and unique style, this photographer became famous for his photos of presidents, generals, and bloody battles fought during the Civil War.

Shooting Lincoln

Shooting Lincoln
Author: Nicholas J.C. Pistor
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0306824701

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.