Tuesday, May 15, 2007

SNAPSHOT: Matthew Brady (ca. 1823 - January 15, 1896)




Matthew Brady, circa 1875

Mathew B. Brady was a celebrated American 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.

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