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 ...

Here are some camera-ready facts about Mathew Brady. 1. HIS EARLY LIFE MIGHT BE ... there is no official record of the marriage. 2. HE TOOK PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES FROM THE INVENTOR OF MORSE CODE.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic ... Early in the war, Gardner was the official photographer of the Army of the Potomac, after which he established his own galleries ...

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

Then you can sympathize with the great Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Sent by his employer, Mathew Brady, to take photos of the Battle of Antietam in 1862, Gardner pretty much invented ...

NPG, Mathew Brady Studio, c. 1863 To create a carte de visite, a photographer would insert a glass plate negative into a camera that had four separate lenses, securing a total of eight images if ...

After his start capturing the horrors of the Civil War for Mathew Brady's studio, 19th century photographer Timothy O'Sullivan uncovered the beauty of the great expanses of the American west A ...