Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GDJJUO4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 406 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Shirley Streshinsky said Finally, a great biography of Brady. Everyone who knows anything about American history, knows the Brady photographs, but few of us know much about the man himself. Robert Wilson has remedied that, giving us the first really complete biography of the man, and of his role not just in American history but in the history of photography and of photojournalism. This is the kind of book that adds immeasurably to the understanding of the beginning of the gre. Civil War photos are why I began a Civil War Buff new york john It's too long a story for all the details, but Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War got me interested in the Civil War when I was in High School and I've been a student of the Civil Wart for almost 60 years now. When I saw a biography of Brady I jumped at the chance to learn more about him an his work. Unfortunately as the author mentions Brady left little behind to create a thorough life story but I foun. Mathew Brady's Civil War Story This book is more than a simple biography of the great photographer, Mathew Brady, it is also a history of photography. Brady expanded the role of photography from one of portraiture to one of chronicling the history of the Civil War. Robert Wilson does a fine job in telling that story.There is much new in this little volume that adds to our understanding of Brady's life. The book is even more valuable however, in
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. He was not, in the strictest sense, a Civil War photographer. 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. MATHEW BRADY is the biography of an American lege