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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 Wayne as a guy with his dad, Horace Greeley, Edgar Allan Poe, the Prince of Wales, and Jenny Lind were one of the dignitaries photographed in Mathew Brady's studio room. But it was through the Civil Warfare that he became the founding dad of what's now called photojournalism and his photography became an long lasting part of American history. The Civil Warfare was the first conflict ever sold to leave an in depth photographic record, and Mathew Brady was the war's main visual historian. Previously, everyone had never seen in such aspect the bloody particulars of conflict - the strewn physiques of the deceased, the bloated carcasses of horses, the splintered remains of trees and fortifications, or the chaos and suffering on the battlefield. Brady recognized better than anyone of his era the dual electricity of the camera to record and to excite, to stop a moment with time and to get the audience vividly into that second. He had not been, in the strictest sense, a Civil Warfare photographer. As the director of a photographic service, he given Alexander Gardner, Wayne F. Gibson, and others to take photographs, often under his personal guidance; he also sent out Civil War photographs used by others not employed by him. Ironically, Brady experienced supported the Union military to the first major struggle at Bull Run, but was so shaken by the experience that throughout all of those other war he almost never went to battlefields, except prior to or after a significant struggle. MATHEW BRADY is the biography of your American star - a entrepreneur, an completed and innovative specialist, a suave promoter, a famous portrait artist, and, perhaps most significant, a historian who chronicled America during its finest and gravest moments of the 19th hundred years.
