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The photographs of Mathew Brady became icons of American identity. One of his portraits of Abraham Lincoln has entered the collective memory of the world. Today, it is one of the best known and most widespread images of all. It adorns the five-dollar note and is a symbol of American capitalism. Of the 19 presidents of the USA between 1825 and 1896, Brady portrayed 18, with only the 9th president, William Henry Harrison, not included. He died in office, three days before the official photo session with the well-known portraitist. His name, however, is linked to one of the most traumatic events in American history, the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
Brady was born in New York as the son of Irish immigrants and began an apprenticeship with the portrait painter William Page at the age of 16. Here he developed his passion for the human physiognomy, which only found its artistic expression after another encounter with Samuel F. B. Morse. With Morse, Brady was confronted with the methods of daguerreotype, the first technical imaging process. He was fascinated by the technical imaging of human beings and over the next decades he actively participated in the development of photography and also changed imaging technologies several times. In addition to commissioned works in his photo studio opened in New York, Brady worked on a "Gallery of Illustrious Americans", which established his reputation and earned him a number of international awards as a photographer.
With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the photographer's subject changed. In the beginning he tried to earn money with the Civil War by an advertising campaign, in which he offered families to photograph their sons before they went to war. Under the motto "You can tell, how soon it may be too late", he worked with the families' fear of loss. But then he found his artistic calling and established himself as a war photographer who documented the battles and human sacrifices of war on both sides. He received permission from Abraham Lincoln to accompany the Northern troops, but with the restriction that he had to pay for the financing himself. With his camera and portable darkroom, Brady moved into the direct battlefield and gave a face to the horror of the first technological war in human history. The project grew and by the end of the war in 1865 Brady employed a total of 17 assistants who had produced over 10,000 photographic plates. Brady invested over $100,000 in the campaign in the hope that the government would subsequently pay for the costs incurred. But after the end of the war, the cruelty of the battlefields became taboo and Brady was granted only $25,000 by the U.S. government in 1875. Brady died completely impoverished and blinded in New York, but his photographs of the American Civil War live on.
The photographs of Mathew Brady became icons of American identity. One of his portraits of Abraham Lincoln has entered the collective memory of the world. Today, it is one of the best known and most widespread images of all. It adorns the five-dollar note and is a symbol of American capitalism. Of the 19 presidents of the USA between 1825 and 1896, Brady portrayed 18, with only the 9th president, William Henry Harrison, not included. He died in office, three days before the official photo session with the well-known portraitist. His name, however, is linked to one of the most traumatic events in American history, the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
Brady was born in New York as the son of Irish immigrants and began an apprenticeship with the portrait painter William Page at the age of 16. Here he developed his passion for the human physiognomy, which only found its artistic expression after another encounter with Samuel F. B. Morse. With Morse, Brady was confronted with the methods of daguerreotype, the first technical imaging process. He was fascinated by the technical imaging of human beings and over the next decades he actively participated in the development of photography and also changed imaging technologies several times. In addition to commissioned works in his photo studio opened in New York, Brady worked on a "Gallery of Illustrious Americans", which established his reputation and earned him a number of international awards as a photographer.
With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the photographer's subject changed. In the beginning he tried to earn money with the Civil War by an advertising campaign, in which he offered families to photograph their sons before they went to war. Under the motto "You can tell, how soon it may be too late", he worked with the families' fear of loss. But then he found his artistic calling and established himself as a war photographer who documented the battles and human sacrifices of war on both sides. He received permission from Abraham Lincoln to accompany the Northern troops, but with the restriction that he had to pay for the financing himself. With his camera and portable darkroom, Brady moved into the direct battlefield and gave a face to the horror of the first technological war in human history. The project grew and by the end of the war in 1865 Brady employed a total of 17 assistants who had produced over 10,000 photographic plates. Brady invested over $100,000 in the campaign in the hope that the government would subsequently pay for the costs incurred. But after the end of the war, the cruelty of the battlefields became taboo and Brady was granted only $25,000 by the U.S. government in 1875. Brady died completely impoverished and blinded in New York, but his photographs of the American Civil War live on.
.jpg "Mary Todd Lincoln, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Artillery battery of the Federal Army during the American Civil War by Mathew B. Brady")
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_photograph_by_Brady_in_-_(MeisterDrucke-1062690).jpg "Portrait of American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) photograph by Brady in the 19th century by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Abraham Lincoln sitting at a desk in the Washington Gallery, May 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
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_at_the_battle_of_Chickamauga_20th_Septembe_-_(MeisterDrucke-264124).jpg "General George Henry Thomas at the battle of Chickamauga, 20th September 1863 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Major Robert Anderson, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-166743).jpg "General Winfield Scott Hancock by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "The First Ironclad Gunboat built in America, 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-75879).jpg "Portrait of George Stoneman (1822-94) by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General M. C. Meigs, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Abraham Lincoln seated, in profile by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1594875).jpg "Brevet Major-General John Henry Martindale (1815 - 1881) by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Potter and Staff with Mathew Brady Leaning on a Tree, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Thomas Edison, c.1877-8 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Summer Camp Scene, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Army Hospital near Washington, D.C., 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-183399).jpg "General Jefferson C. Davis and Staff by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Ulysses Simpson Grant, engraved after a daguerreotype by Robert E. Whitechurch by Mathew B. Brady")
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 c1844-60 (daguerreotype) - (MeisterDrucke-276195).jpg "Samuel Morse (1791-1872) c.1844-60 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-271002).jpg "Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Jefferson Davis by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Army Corps, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Charles Devens and Staff by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-42858).jpg "Portrait of Philip Henry Sheridan by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "President Lincoln in the last week of his life, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Samuel Morse and his Recorder, 1857 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Federal Camp by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Filling Their Canteens, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-199597).jpg "General Benjamin F. Butler, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-51153).jpg "Portrait of Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-86) by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-252666).jpg "George Armstrong Custer by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew B. Brady")
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_(bw_photo)_-_(MeisterDrucke-36056).jpg "Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-237298).jpg "General David B. Birney, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Forrest Hall Prison, Washington, D.C. by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Effect of Explosion of 32-pound Shell from Massachusetts Artillery, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-237446).jpg "Portrait of General Ulysses Grant, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Andrew Johnson, engraved from a photograph by Thomas Phillibrown by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Lewis Cass, from")
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.jpg "Father Thomas H. Mooney Leading Sunday Mass, 69th New York Infantry Regiment, 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Camp of the Union forces at Centreville, Virginia, Winter of 1861 and 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Engraving of Abraham Lincoln after a photograph by Mathew B. Brady by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Battery No.4 near Yorktown, 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Allan Pinkerton at Antietam after the Battle, 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Edward VII as Prince of Wales, New York, 1860, 1939 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-584602).jpg "General Robert E Lee and Staff, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D. by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Benjamin F. Butler, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-102581).jpg "Portrait of General Quincy Adams Gillmore by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Putnam by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Grant by Tree, City Point, 1864 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Portrait photograph of William Tecumseh Sherman by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-648720).jpg "Major-General Joseph Hooker, c.1863 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "D.W.C. Arnold, a private in the Union Army, near Harper")
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.jpg "Generals Grant, Badeau, Rawlins, Comstock and Porter, and Colonels Duff, F. D. Dent, Robinett and Parker by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Wounded Union Soldiers at Gaines Mill, Savage")
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.jpg "A Field Hospital Scene at Savage")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-94583).jpg "Portrait of Gideon Welles (1802-78) by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Captain Wiley")
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.jpg "Millard Fillmore, from")
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.jpg "Edgar Allan Poe by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General David Hunter (1861-65) by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Grape Vine Bridge built by US engineers by Mathew B. Brady")
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 June 1864 - April 1865 - (MeisterDrucke-241923).jpg "A Sutler")
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.jpg "Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, 1859-60 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "John Tyler by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-321977).jpg "Belle Boyd by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Ruins at Richmond, Virginia, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Charles Griffin and Officers, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Rutherford B. Hayes before his inauguration as President, 1877 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Pontoon Bridge between Georgetown and Anaconda Island, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Major General W.T. Sherman and horse by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Heintzelman Entertaining Friends at the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan, 1864 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Robert E. Lee by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Captain Cooper")
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.jpg "Lewis Cass by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-242492).jpg "Portrait of General George B. McClellan by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-243321).jpg "Phineas Taylor Barnum by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-157674).jpg "Portrait of Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln and Major J. A. McClernand by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "The Last Interview between President Lincoln and General McClellan at Antietam by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Mr. Wilkeson by Alexander Gardner")
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.jpg "Robert E. Lee by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Portrait of James Fenimore Cooper by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-300207).jpg "Admiral John A. Dahlgren by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Sheridan by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Both Sides, the Cause by James F. Gibson")
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.jpg "Defence of Washington, Fort Totten, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "South-West view of Battery No. 1 at Farnholds House, York River, 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 American Politician 32nd US Secretary of State (albumen photo) - (MeisterDrucke-146435).jpg "James Donald Cameron, American Politician, 32nd US Secretary of State by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Captain Battery by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Onondaga by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-371419).jpg "First U.S. Coloured Infantry by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Bridge built by troops on the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-107009).jpg "Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by Mathew B. Brady")
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 c1851-60 (daguerreotype) - (MeisterDrucke-90691).jpg "William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) c.1851-60 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Abraham Lincoln by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "President Lincoln at Sharpsburg, October 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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