Mathew Brady : : Portraits of a Nation
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Introduction: "Photo by Brady" -- "A craving for light" -- "This great national map" -- "In daguerreotypes...we beat the world" -- "Large copies from small originals" -- "Startling likenesses of the great" -- "Wonderful strangers" -- "Last place...to see the nation whole" -- "Illustrations of camp life" -- "A continuous roll of musketry" -- "More eloquent than the sternest speech" -- "The terrible reality and earnestness of war" -- "Brady and the Lilliputians" -- "Rebel invasion" -- "That memorable campaign" -- "The ball has opened" -- "A photographic pantheon" -- "Familiar as household words" -- "The stings of poverty" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
"In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Henry James as a boy with his father, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio. But it was during the Civil War that he became the founding father of what is now called photojournalism and his photography became an enduring part of American history.
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PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: x, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781620402030
1620402033
SUBJECTS
Brady, Mathew B., -- approximately 1823-1896.
Photographers -- Biography.
United States -- Photography. -- Civil War, 1861-1865