Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GDJJUO4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 537 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Brady knew better than anyone of his era the dual power of the camera to record and to excite, to stop a moment in time and to draw the viewer vividly into that moment. As the director of a photographic service, he assigned Alexander Gardner, James F. He was not, in the strictest sense, a Civil War photographer. MATHEW BRADY is the biography of an American legend - a businessman, an accomplished and innovative technician, a suave promoter, a celebrated portrait artist, and, perhaps most important, a historian who chronicled America during its finest and gravest moments of the 19th century.. In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Previously, the general public had never seen in such detail the bloody particulars of war - the strewn bodies of the dead, the bloated carcasses of horses, the splintered remains of trees and fortifications, or the c
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 immeasura. Civil War photos are why I began a Civil War Buff 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 litt. Military Warrior said 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