Mathew Brady
A dead person is a gruesome sight to see. More in real life, but for some one who has never seen anything like it, it can be quite shocking. The most popular of Brady's photographs were the ones of the dead. And this destroyed the idea that war is romantic and glorious. The people who saw Mathew Brady's photographs from the civil war were horrified, yet intrigued. This particular picture is quite disgusting. It does not have a title, but the caption reads "No words are needed for the story this picture tells." The boy's head is twisted backward in a position that is incapable of being moved to on a live man. His eyes are closed yet his mouth is open. There is a gun lying across his body as he lies in a ditch next to other guns and waste. His body hangs limp with the chill of death. Brady's pictures changed the world of photography and war. They changed the way people look at war. Brady's photographs were state of the art and laid a foundation for photographers after him. Brady didn't just start taking pictures for the war. Mathew B. Brady, the B. added to make him appear more professional, started off wanting to be an artist and painted portraits. He studied under Samuel Morse
Meredith, Roy. The World of Mathew Brady: Portraits of the Civil War Period. Los Angeles: To make sure and capture every battle and other meeting between the two sides that he could, Brady hired assistants and bought more equipment. Since there was no easy way to bring the negatives back to a studio with a dark room, Brady made a dark room on wheels. These looked very odd to the soldiers and they became known as "what-is-it-wagons". Brady had as many as twenty operators in the field at one time following as many officers and men as possible. Brady, himself traveled with the army of the Potomac. Once at the battle at Fredericksburg, Confederate troops, mistaking Brady's camera for a weapon of some kind shot at him and his camera. His camera was not too damaged and Brady was not hurt, but chemicals, plates, and some other equipment were broken. The civil war was called the first "living room" war. Everyone was a big fan of the pictures, in 1875, the US government paid Brady $25 thousand for one set of negatives. Yet, in 1862, Brady published two collections of his best pictures from the war. The sales were very poor and Brady became poverty stricken. When Brady showed up four days after the battle of Gettysburg, there was not much to photograph. By this time most of the bodies had been buried and there was not much left to look at. But Brady saw beyond what the normal person may see at a battlefield. He looked into the scenery and landscape. He took advantage of the fact that the landmarks at Gettysburg were well known. His different approach to these pictures of scenery showed that nature was still more powerful than guns. The pictures were of t
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