![]() ![]() He later claimed to have had a calling to chronicle the Civil War and tried unsuccessfully to photograph the Battle of Bull Run. When the Civil War began in 1861, Brady was at the peak of his success as a portrait photographer. Among them were Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Edward Albert, prince of Wales. Brady specialized in carte-de-visite portraits of national leaders, politicians, and foreign dignitaries. ![]() He opened his National Photographic Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1858 and a couple of years later a National Portrait Gallery in New York City. ![]() He opened a studio in New York five years later and in 1850 published portraits and biographical sketches of eminent American citizens in his first book, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans. Brady was the first photographer to extensively chronicle historical events and to advance photography beyond the art of portraiture.īorn in 1823 or 1824 in Warren County, New York, and trained as a portrait painter, Brady became interested In addition to portraits of military commanders, they document scenes of the battlefield and daily life in the camp along with houses, hospitals, ships, and railroads. Brady and his associates during the Civil War. ![]() BRADY PHOTOGRAPHS, collection of photo-graphs taken by Mathew B. ![]()
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