Knowra Mathew Brady Mathew Brady Mathew Brady was an American photographer whose studio produced portraits of prominent nineteenth-century figures and whose teams documented the U.S. Civil War.
The Dead of Antietam : A series of photographs Alexander Gardner made of Union and Confederate dead after the 1862 Battle of Antietam. Brady exhibited these battlefield photographs in New York, bringing images of war dead before a broad public.
Wet-plate collodion process : A nineteenth-century photographic process that used a light-sensitive collodion coating on glass plates, exposed and developed while wet. The cumbersome process shaped how Brady’s photographers prepared and made Civil War images.
Abraham Lincoln : The 16th president of the United States, whose leadership during the Civil War ended slavery in the United States. Lincoln credited Brady’s photographs with helping him gain public recognition during the 1860 campaign.
Photography and the American Civil War : The use of photography to record people, places, and conditions during the American Civil War. Brady’s operation helped establish photography as a visual record of a conflict largely absent from direct battle scenes.
Alexander Gardner : A Scottish-born American photographer who documented the Civil War and later established an independent Washington studio. Gardner worked for Brady before making many of the war photographs associated with Brady’s enterprise.
Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery : A New York portrait gallery founded by Mathew Brady, known for displaying and selling photographs of prominent people. The gallery turned portrait making into a commercial enterprise and a public showcase for Brady’s work.
Andrew Gardner : A Scottish-born American photographer who worked for Mathew Brady before opening his own studio in Washington. Gardner’s later independent work complicates the attribution of Civil War photographs to Brady alone.
War photography : Photographic documentation of armed conflict, including combatants, landscapes, aftermath, and civilian experiences. Brady’s Civil War enterprise became an early model for photographing war at scale.
Abraham Lincoln photographs by Mathew Brady : Photographs of Abraham Lincoln made by Brady or his studio, including portraits that circulated widely during Lincoln’s political career. Brady’s 1860 portrait helped make Lincoln’s face familiar during his presidential campaign.
Brady's Civil War photographic teams : Photographers and assistants employed by Brady to make and process images during the American Civil War. Their work means many photographs issued under Brady’s name were made by associates rather than Brady himself.
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