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Matthew Brady (1799 – 4 May 1826) was an English-born convict who became a bushranger in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania). He was sometimes known as "Gentleman Brady" due to his good treatment and fine manners when robbing his victims.
But beyond its use as a publicity tool, Mathew Brady’s distinguished collection served to manifest his own sense of historical mission as well. “From the very first,” Brady told an interviewer in 1891, “I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers.”. In 1981, with the ...
May 17, 2022 · Mathew Brady: The Father of Photojournalism. In the middle of July, 1863, a small group of men busily moved across the sweeping terrain of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One of the men gazed towards a small hill known as Little Round Top, likely battling the sweltering heat as he focused and consulted his notes. Just a few weeks before, Little Round ...
But beyond its use as a publicity tool, Mathew Brady’s distinguished collection served to manifest his own sense of historical mission as well. “From the very first,” Brady told an interviewer in 1891, “I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers.”. In 1981, with the ...
Mathew Brady (1823-1896) was one of the most prolific photographers of the nineteenth century, creating a visual documentation of the Civil War period (1860-1865). During the Civil War, Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in ...
Mathew Brady did not actually take many of the Civil War photographs attributed to him. More of a project manager, he spent most of his time supervising his corps of traveling photographers, preserving their negatives and buying others from private photographers fresh from the battlefield, so that his collection would be as comprehensive as possible.
Aug 7, 2013 · “Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation,” Robert Wilson’s new biography of the photographer, relates how his skill and charm made him the favorite of politicians and generals from the 1840s onward.
