Mathew Brady : portraits of a nation / Robert Wilson.
| Author/creator |
Wilson, Robert, 1951 February 21- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First U.S. edition. |
| Publication Info | New York, New York : Bloomsbury, 2013. |
| Description | x, 273 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction: "Photo by Brady" -- "A craving for light" -- "This great national map" -- "In daguerreotypes...we beat the world" -- "Large copies from small originals" -- "Startling likenesses of the great" -- "Wonderful strangers" -- "Last place...to see the nation whole" -- "Illustrations of camp life" -- "A continuous roll of musketry" -- "More eloquent than the sternest speech" -- "The terrible reality and earnestness of war" -- "Brady and the Lilliputians" -- "Rebel invasion" -- "That memorable campaign" -- "The ball has opened" -- "A photographic pantheon" -- "Familiar as household words" -- "The stings of poverty" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | "In the 1840s and 1850s, "Brady of Broadway" was one of the most successful and acclaimed Manhattan portrait galleries. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Dolley Madison, Henry James as a boy with his father, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were among the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio. But it was during the Civil War that he became the founding father of what is now called photojournalism and his photography became an enduring part of American history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 257-261) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013016928 |
| ISBN | 1620402033 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781620402030 (hardback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | TR140 .B7 W55 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |