Mathew Brady and the Image of History,9781588341433

Mathew Brady and the Image of History

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ISBN13: 9781588341433
ISBN10: 1588341437
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher(s): Smithsonian Inst Pr
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Summary

Modern memory of the Civil War owes much to the lens of Matthew Brady, one of the most famous and paradoxical figures in American photography. The best of Mathew Brady's brilliant work is here, including his famous portraits of President Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, the Union dead, and Robert E. Lee -- haunting images that strove to create the vision of a stable, purposeful republic even as national identity was fragmenting. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mary Panzer teaches at Hunter College and New York University and writes on photography and American history. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Alan Fern
Acknowledgments ix
Lenders to the Exhibition xiii
Chronology of Mathew Brady's Life xv
Introduction
1(8)
A Brief Biography
9(14)
``A Perfect Kaleidoscope'': New York City
23(16)
The Making of a Daguerreotypist
39(16)
Building a National Gallery
55(16)
Photography and American Art at Midcentury
71(22)
Washington and the War Years
93(20)
History as Image, Photography as Art
113(76)
Notes
122(14)
A Gallery of Images
136(32)
Plate Captions and Subject Biographies
168(21)
Recollecting the Past: A Collection Chronicle of Mathew Brady's Photographs
189(20)
Jeana K. Foley
Appendix: Contemporary Descriptions of Mathew Brady 209(18)
Selected Bibliography 227(2)
Photography Credits 229(1)
Index 230

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