04290cam a2200457 4500 607896002 TxAuBib 20220821120000.0 130722s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781620402047 electronic bk. 1620402041 electronic bk. B00D78R51O Amazon a3d57119-2e13-4a9b-a528-76b55560478c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1345687 OverDrive (Product ID) (OCoLC)853449618 TEFOD TEFOD TEFOD JIC TxAuBib Wilson, Robert Charles. Mathew Brady. Mathew Brady [Bridges eBook] : portraits of a nation / Robert Wilson. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2013. 1 online resource : ill. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5043kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Includes bibliographical references and index. "In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. 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. 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. The Civil War was the first war in history to leave a detailed photographic record, and Mathew Brady was the war's chief visual historian. 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, the chaos and suffering on the battlefield. 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. He was not, in the strictest sense, a Civil War photographer. As the director of a photographic service, he assigned Alexander Gardner, James F. Gibson, and others to take photographs, often under his personal supervision; he also distributed Civil War photographs taken by others not employed by him. Ironically, Brady had accompanied the Union army to the first major battle at Bull Run, but was so shaken by the experience that throughout the rest of the war he rarely visited battlefields, except well before or after a major battle. The famous Brady photographs at Antietam were shot by Gardner and Gibson. Few books about Brady have gone beyond being collections of the photographs attributed to him, accompanied by a biographical sketch. MATHEW BRADY will be 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"-- Provided by publisher. The first narrative biography of the Civil War's chief visual historian, Mathew Brady. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-19 20:00:02. Imported from MARC file. Brady, Mathew B approximately 1823-1896. Photographers United States Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Historical. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Photography. History United States Civil War Period (1850-1877.) Electronic books. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=A3D57119-2E13-4A9B-A528-76B55560478C http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/030/9781620402030/image/lgcover.9781620402030.jpg Cover image https://samples.overdrive.com/mathew-brady?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/mathew-brady?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/mathew-brady?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)