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| Matthew Brady snippet |
| Brady's efforts to document the Civil War on a grand scale by bringing his photographic studio right onto the battlefields earned
Brady his place in history. |
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| Matthew Brady |
| Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823 – January 15 or January 16, 1896) was a celebrated photographer whose rise to prominence occurred largely in the
years preceding and during the American Civil War. Following the conflict, a war weary public lost interest in seeing photos of the war,
and Brady’s popularity and practice declined drastically. |
| Brady's early images were daguerreotypes, and he won many awards for his work; in the 1850's ambrotypes became popular, which gave way to the
albumen print, a paper photo produced from large glass negatives commonly used in the American Civil War photography. In 1859, Parisian
photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri popularized the visiting card and these small pictures rapidly became a novelty as millions of images
were created and sold in the United States and Europe. |
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