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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

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