Mathew Benjamin Brady
Also recorded as M. B. Brady · Mathew B. Brady
Mathew Benjamin Brady
Levin Handy · https: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03798 · Public domain
- Full name
- Mathew Brady Brady.
- Born
- 1822. · Warren County.
- Died
- 1896. · Manhattan.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- photographer, photojournalist, journalist and war correspondent.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Languages
- English.
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Identity
The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City and Washington, D.C. Work by Mathew Benjamin Brady is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and Netherlands Photo Museum.
Mathew Benjamin Brady is recorded as photographer, photojournalist, journalist and war correspondent. Recorded at birth as Mathew Brady Brady. Recognition and collections.
Wendell Phillips, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.
Mathew Benjamin Brady · Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Daguerreotype collection.
Duff Green. Library of Congress description: "Gen. Duff Green"
Mathew Benjamin Brady / Levin Corbin Handy · Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http: CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 12 P P [P P]
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1822
Mathew Benjamin Brady born at Warren County.
1896
Mathew Benjamin Brady died at Manhattan.
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Warren County.
Birth place
Manhattan.
Death place
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- 1.Meredith, Roy. Mr. Lincoln's camera man, Mathew B. Brady. Dover Publications, Inc. 1. 1974. 1169230.
- 2.Pritzker, Barry. Mathew Brady. JG Press. 1992. 1-57215-342-3.
- 3.An Irishman's Diary: Parallels between Seán Keating's wild west and the real thing. The Irish Times.
- 4.Smith, Zoe C. Brady, Mathew B. American National Biography Online. February 2000.
- 5.Crain, Caleb. How Soon It May Be Too Late. The New York Times. August 4, 2013.
- 6.The tuition was fifty dollars, which Brady earned by working as a clerk for department store tycoon Alexander Turney Stewart.
- 7.14 Facts About Mathew Brady. July 13, 2018.
- 8.World Digital Library. Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln. 1861.
- 9.The couple had no children, but lavished their attention on Julia's nephew, Levin Handy, who would continue to run Brady's studio until after Brady's death.
- 10.Wilson, Robert. Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 27, 117, 241
- 11.Volo, James M. The Antebellum Period. Greenwood Press. 106. 2004. 0-313-32518-9.
- 12.Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850–1920 – Duke Libraries . Library.duke.edu (March 16, 2010). Retrieved September 2, 2011
- 13.Antietam, Maryland. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Major General John A. McClernand: Another View. World Digital Library. October 3, 1862.
- 14.Meredith, Roy. Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Mathew B. Brady. Dover Publications. vii. 1974. 048623021X.
- 15.The National Archives. Ingersoll, Jared, (1749–1822). US Government: National Archives.
- 16.Peters, Benjamin Franklin. H. Rept. 41-46 - Brady's collection of historical portraits. March 3, 1871. -- Ordered to be printed and recommitted to the Joint Committee on the Library. GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- 17.Orlikoff, A. J. Mathew Brady: The Father of Photojournalism. Historic Congressional Cemetery. May 17, 2022.
- 18.Smithsonian National Postal Museum . Arago.si.edu (May 16, 2006). Retrieved September 2, 2011
- 19.Lee's first session with Brady was in 1845 as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, his final after the war in Richmond, Virginia.
- 20.Horan, James D. Mathew Brady: Historian With a Camera. Random House. 1988. 0-517-00104-7.
- 21.Smith, Zoe C. Brady, Mathew B. American National Biography Online. February 2000.
- 22.Macy, et al., "Macy Photographic Studio's Dispatch, The", Northampton MA, Spring–Summer 1913, pp. 2–3
- 23.Mathew B. Brady. International Photography Hall of Fame.
- 24."The Photographic History of the Civil War, in Ten Volumes", Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor-in-chief, and Robert S. Lanier, Managing Editor, The Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1912, p. 52
- 25.Kinship of the soul – 1993 Commencement address by filmmaker Ken Burns, University of Delaware Messenger. Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 6, Summer 1993. Retrieved June 2011
- 26.10 Facts: Civil War Photography. November 16, 2020.
- 27.Bob Zeller.
- 28.Matthew Brady Antietam Photography Exhibit From 1862 Recreated at National Museum of Civil War Medicine (PHOTOS). October 5, 2012.
- 29.Brady's Photographs: Pictures of the Dead at Antietam. The New York Times. October 20, 1862.
- 30.Museum, George Eastman. Portrait, Civil War Officer. 10 June 2015.
- 31.Illustrated in: Frassanito, William A., E474.65.F7 (P&P) Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day, E474.65.F7 (P&P). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 31, with comments on pages 30-32
- 32.The "Dead on Matthews Hil"Arent Dead" by Bob Zeller Battlefield Photographer Volume XX Issue 3 December 2022
- 33.The irregular black edge would not have appeared in the official final portrait prints.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Guthrie, Jason Lee. "Ill-Protected Portraits: Mathew Brady and Photographic Copyright." Journalism History 45.2 (2019): 135–156.
- Holzer, Harold. "The Campaign of 1860: Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the Campaign of Words and Images."in Lincoln Revisited (Fordham University Press, 2009) pp. 57–80.
- Meredith, Roy. Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Mathew B. Brady (1974).
- Panzer, Mary. Mathew Brady and the Image of History. Smithsonian Books. 1997. 1-58834-143-7 LCC.
- Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (Macmillan, 1990).
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