If you’ve ever seen a portrait of a Civil War soldier or the landscape of a battlefield just after the cannon-fire has been silenced, then you’re familiar with the work of Mathew Brady. Now meet the ...
In 1875, Congress paid Brady $25,000 for full title to his Civil War images. A kidney condition finally forced Brady's hospitalization in 1895, and on January 15th of the following year ...
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 ...
He apprenticed in the studio of famed photographer Matthew Brady, and he took ... daring and genius his photographs required. On the bloody fields of the Civil War, he saw and recorded terrible ...