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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.
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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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_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 "Walt Whitman, American Poet, c1880s by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Samuel Morse and his Recorder, 1857 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Thomas Edison, c.1877-8 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 "Effect of Explosion of 32-pound Shell from Massachusetts Artillery, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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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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 - (MeisterDrucke-237446).jpg "Portrait of General Ulysses Grant, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-73815).jpg "Portrait of Jefferson Davis by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-227022).jpg "President James Knox Polk 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-252666).jpg "George Armstrong Custer by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "President Lincoln Visiting the Camp at Antietam, 4th October 1892 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Abraham Lincoln by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Samuel F.B. Morse 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-313257).jpg "Cooks in a large camp mess hall during the American Civil War by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-315397).jpg "Managers of the House of Representatives of the Impeachment, 1868 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, 1859-60 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Union Brig. Gen. Samuel Wylie Crawford and staff, summer 1862 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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_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 "Abraham Lincoln, 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Mary Todd Lincoln, 1865 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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-321977).jpg "Belle Boyd by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Edgar Allan Poe by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Company of Infantry near Harper")
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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-166743).jpg "General Winfield Scott Hancock by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-55087).jpg "Edgar Allan Poe by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Union Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday, early 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Federal Camp by Mathew B. Brady")
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 (detail of 254703) - (MeisterDrucke-70188).jpg "Portrait of Jefferson Davis (detail) by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "A Wounded Zouave by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General George A. Custer and General Alfred Pleasonton, 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 "A Field Hospital Scene at Savage")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-183399).jpg "General Jefferson C. Davis and Staff by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Camp of Confederate Prisoners by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-313010).jpg "Inauguration of President Lincoln, 4th March 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Hooker on Horse by Mathew B. Brady")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-98849).jpg "Portrait of Edwin M. Stanton (1814-69) 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 "Making Gabions in Front of Petersburg, 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 "The Last Interview between President Lincoln and General McClellan at Antietam by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Wounded Union Soldiers at Gaines Mill, Savage")
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.jpg "Edgar Allan Poe by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Charles Devens and Staff by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "An Army Supply Train, Virginia, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Ruins at Richmond, Virginia, 1865 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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.jpg "President Lincoln at Sharpsburg, October 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Edwin Booth and his daughter Edwina by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Pontoon Bridge at Deep Bottom on the James by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "St. Michael")
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.jpg "Filling Their Canteens, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General Ulysses Simpson Grant, engraved from a photograph, illustration from")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-281402).jpg "Portrait of General Winfield Scott, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "John Tyler by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Army Corps, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "The Post Office, Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Union Wounded at Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1863 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "James Fenimore Cooper, c.1850 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Crew of the original")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-104563).jpg "Dolley Madison, 1848 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General David Hunter (1861-65) by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Hospital No.15, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1864 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 "Major General Ord with his wife and child, at the mansion formerly occupied by Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Virginia, 1865 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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.jpg "Battery No.4 near Yorktown, 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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.jpg "Grape Vine Bridge built by US engineers by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "General George G. Meade in Camp by Mathew B. Brady")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-230972).jpg "General James H. Wilson and Friends, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Landing Supplies on the James River, Virginia, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Albumen print of General McClellan at Headquarters, Gen. Morrell")
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.jpg "President Lincoln and General McLellan in McLellan")
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.jpg "Lincoln")
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.jpg "General Theo S. Bowers by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Brady")
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.jpg "Federal Army Encampment, 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Fort Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina 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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 - (MeisterDrucke-170632).jpg "Clara Barton, c.1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "Transportation of Supplies, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
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.jpg "The First Ironclad Gunboat built in America, 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
_(bw_photo)_-_(MeisterDrucke-36056).jpg "Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg "Artillery battery of the Federal Army during the American Civil War by Mathew B. Brady")