Mathew Brady, a 19th century pioneer of American photography, was known for both his portraits of celebrities as well as for his searing images of the Civil War. Jeffrey Brown talks to Robert ...

Mathew Brady/Library of Congress Mathew Brady was an early American adopter of the daguerrotype, the first commercially viable form of photography, which was brought to America by Samuel Morse.

If a photograph is worth a thousand words, certainly pioneering 19th century photographer Mathew Brady deserves a book. Some gaps still exist in Brady's life history. The year of his birth is ...

In the midst of all the smoke and carnage, at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861 stood (and, presumably, ran) the distinguished photographer Mathew B. Brady. Out to capture scenes from the Civil War ...

Brady's Daguerreotypes, 1854 National Portrait Gallery, Gift of George S. Whiteley IV M. B. Brady at the World's Fair in London, 1851 National Portrait Gallery Martin Van Buren by Mathew B.

Although "Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation" is billed as a biography, it actually reads as a by-now familiar story of technological innovation and entrepreneurship, parallel in an eerie way to ...

One of the first Americans to become proficient at photography, Mathew Brady earned eternal fame—and poverty—for documenting the carnage of the Civil War. By 1854, he was already photographing ...

On Easter Sunday 1865, the renowned Civil War photographer Mathew B. Brady set up his camera on the basement-level back porch of a house at 707 Franklin St. in Richmond. It was tense in the former ...

Although Pelham city records are scanty, Seales has conducted extensive research through personal interviews and newspaper accounts. "(Pelham resident) Lula Davis' daddy had always told her that ...

1858 Alice George - Museums Correspondent When presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln arrived at Mathew Brady’s New York City studio to pose for a picture, the pioneering photographer left ...

The Lincoln portion comes from a Jan. 8, 1864, photo-portrait session with noted Civil War photographer Mathew Brady: The cat portion, meanwhile, comes from a stock photograph on the website ...

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