Mathew Brady Portraits of a Nation

Name: Mathew Brady Portraits of a Nation
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ISBN: 9781620402030

ISBN-10: 1620402033

ISBN-13: 9781620402030

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert Wilson

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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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 8/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Robert Wilson has lived and worked around the world, including spells shipbroking, tourguiding, and exporting bathrooms to Nigeria. Eventually, Rob settled in Portugal, and turned to novels. Since then, he's written many acclaimed crime novels including the CWA Gold Dagger award winning A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON and the Falcï¿½n series, recently adapted for television. His first novel featuring Charlie Boxer, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT was shortlisted for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award. Find out more at www.robert-wilson.eu.



Introduction: "Photo by Brady"



"A Craving for Light"



"This Great National Map"



"In Daguerreotypes … We Beat the World"



"Large Copies from Small Originals"



"Startling Likenesses of the Great"



"Wonderful Strangers"



"Last Place … to See the Nation Whole"



"Illustrations of Camp Life"



"A Continuous Roll of Musketry"



"More Eloquent Than the Sternest Speech"



"The Terrible Reality and Earnestness of War"



"Brady and the Lilliputians"



"Rebel Invasion"



"That Memorable Campaign"



"The Ball Has Opened"



"A Photographic Pantheon"



"Familiar as Household Words"



"The Stings of Poverty"


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index