Mathew Brady and Photography in the Civil War
Photography was a new part of life during the Civil War; it was still in the process of being developed when Mathew Brady, a distinguished photographer, was working. He used different ideas and items to make his job easier, from traveling darkrooms to hiring assistants. He was hungry for money, and got it by photographing famous people. Once the war started he realized that by photographing war, he wouldn’t become rich, but he would make others rich with knowledge of the war through pictures. Brady created the idea that photography was an important part of war. He then devoted a large portion of his life to document the terrors of war in his photography, and he was a success. He was the first to make people realize the truth of war and how devastating it was. He brought the war to them. Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle first experimented with what we now call photography. He found that an object’s silhouette could be shown by placing it in front of a light that is shining through a small hole. Then, in the 1500's in Italy, a man built the camera obscura, a very simple camera. With just an eyepiece and lens, it relied on a group of mirrors to create an image inside a box. Finally the camera as we know it today b
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