On Easter Sunday 1865, the renowned Civil War photographer Mathew B. Brady set up his camera on the back porch of a house in Richmond, Va. It was tense in the former Confederate capital.

1823–96 New York Photographer. One of the first Americans to become proficient at photography, Mathew Brady earned eternal fame—and poverty—for documenting the carnage of the Civil War.

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Historian Bill Ryan likes to share his collection of American Civil War photographs, said to have been taken by Mathew Brady. He also knows a lot about cameras. He’ll discuss both during the ...

Robert Wilson, author of [Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation], talked about Brady's photography before the Civil War and and how it changed in the following years. He also talked about the ...

Together, they documented the Civil War. <p>Brady was one of the most famous photographers in the World. But, perhaps his greatest gift to American history, is that he outfitted dozens of other ...

Mathew Brady, the Civil War photographer who died this week in 1896, is rightly considered the father of photojournalism, although there is controversy over how many Civil War photographs he ...

When the Civil War began, Brady immediately began photographing the battles and men involved. He was nearly killed in the battle of Bull Run but even. When the Civil War began, ...

Was Mathew Brady – the most famous American photographer of all time – born in Ireland or the US? The issue now seems to have been resolved. Renowned American Civil War photographer Mathew B ...