Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
by Alan Trachtenberg
from Hill and Wang
In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content. Reading American Photographs is lavishly illustrated with the work of such luminaries as Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, and Walker Evans--pictures that document the American experience from 1839 to 1938. In an outstanding analysis, Trachtenberg eloquently articulates how the art of photography has both followed and shaped the course of American history, and how images captured decades ago provocatively illuminate the present.
In the Wake of Battle: The Civil War Images of Mathew Brady
by George Sullivan
from Prestel Publishing
More than 350 photographs by Mathew Brady and his corps of cameramen, many of them never seen before, make this the most comprehensive collection of Civil War images ever published.
Mathew Brady is arguably the most widely hailed documentarian of AmericaÂ’s bloodiest conflict: the Civil War. He and his cameramen created an indelible record of bravery, suffering, and sacrifice. Exhibitions of BradyÂ’s photographs helped to introduce Americans to the brutal realities of war, and he was a pioneer in the field of photojournalism by providing his battlefield scenes and portrait photographs to HarperÂ’s and other weekly publications of the time for use as woodcuts.
Arranged by battle site and event, each of which is introduced by a brief explanatory essay, the volume offers carefully researched archival information about each image and its photographer. Photographs by Alexander Gardner, Timothy OÂ’Sullivan, and James Gibson are among those included in this thoroughly documented collection.
Caption material includes Library of Congress digital order numbers; order numbers are also given for images from the National Archives. This information helps to make the volume a valuable resource for anyone interested in Civil War history or nineteenth-century photography.
Mathew B. Brady
by Wayne Youngblood
from Chartwell Books
Mathew Brady and the Image of History
by Panzer M
from Smithsonian
Much of our image of the Civil War era comes from the photographs of Matthew Brady, and in Matthew Brady and the Image of History Mary Panzer, curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C., examines the work of this American icon. Brady, she writes, "used art to forge a relationship between photography and history, but when the memory of Brady the artist vanished, we came to accept his images as facts." Brady composed his photographs along classical models, always seeking the heroic in his subjects--who, until the advent of the Civil War, tended to be the business and social leaders who could afford his fees. Panzer's account of Brady's wartime work is especially revealing: where assistants like Timothy O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner favored realistic studies of the dead in battle, Brady favored sweeping panoramas that obscured individual soldiers. For all that, it is Brady we remember as the man who, a contemporary journalist observed, "has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war." The book is richly illustrated with the work of Brady and his carefully credited assistants, and it deserves a place in the library of anyone with an interest in 19th-century American history.
Collected images from one of the greatest photographers of the nineteenth century.
During a career that spanned the 1840s to the 1890s, Mathew Brady consciously set out to capture the pivotal moments of the second half of the nineteenth century. Here are his famous portraits of President Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, the Union dead, and Robert E. Lee. 72 b/w photographs, 79 b/w illustrations.
Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady
by Roy Meredith
from Dover Publications
Brady's Civil War: A Collection of memorable Civil War Images photographed by Mathew Brady and his assistants
A selection of more than 270 dramatic photographs, by the premier photographer of the conflict, the first war to be comprehensively photo-documented.
Mathew Brady
A pioneer of the photographic medium and one of the Civil War's greatest chroniclers records its monumental personalities, its decisive battles, and its unmatched price in dead and injured and in devastated land.
Mathew Brady (Phaidon 55s)
by Mary Panzer
from Phaidon Press
The 55 Series This is one of the most unique monograph series in the history of photography! The 55 Series represents the work of many of photography s most important figures. Each book contains 55 of the photographer s key works, presented chronologically and through them tells the photographer s own story. These books are small, but surprisingly rich in content and reproduction quality. They are a most economical way to bring the world of photography into your home. Each book is 128 pp. 6 1/4 x 5 3/4 , softbound.
Brady's daguerreotypes were awarded at the World's Fair, in London, 1851, the prize medal: For the best daguerreotypes in New York ... : Brady's Daguerrian Galleries, 359 & 205 Broadway, New York
Mathew Brady and his world: Produced by Time-Life Books from pictures in the Meserve collection
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