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Mathew Brady
• Born in Warren County New York in early 1820’s to
Irish immigrants-Died in 1896
• Known for pictures of the Civil War
• Took pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allan Poe,
James Fennimore Copper
• Not much known about his early life
INFO
• Started with taking pictures by using
daguerreotypy- a process of creating
a mirror image on a sliver-surfaced
copper plate
• Made jewelry and metal boxes using
this process
• He opened a studio in Washington
D.C. for his daguerreotypy
• Made daguerreotypy for famous
politicians
DAGUERREOTYPY
• Took pictures of the civil war
• Battle fields
• It showed what was happening in
the country
• Left a record of the civil war
• It showed what it really looked like,
something words could not show
HISTORICAL RECORD
HISTORICAL RECORD PICTURES
Portraits Action
Documentary Historical
STYLE
FAVORITE PICTURE
Very clear
Shows emotion of the war
Shallow depth of field
Bright whites and dark
blacks
Explains how their life was
• Know for his picture of
Abraham Lincoln
• Took many pictures of
politicians and famous
people of that time
• Portraits
KNOWN FOR
• The Civil war became more popular and understood because of the
pictures that he took.
• It helped people relate to the war
• Showed what the war was really like
• Helped document the war
• Portraits helped remember people
• Showed the public what was going on
• Took over 10,000 pictures of the conflict and gruesome images to help
make it a reality
INFLUENCE
http://www.mathewbrady.com/about.htm
www.history.com/topics/mathew-brady
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/mathew-brady.html
SOURCES