Mathew Brady's Photography of the Civil War

Introduction Photography shooting opened the world. "The world was blind was not until 1839. Its vision was limited to the artists and artists of the audience, but it was not in the rest of the world or history" (Holland 3 ). People imagine things until they see them. As long as someone does not really see it, they believe what they want. Matthew Brady shows people the true state of warfare. Before Matthew Brady took a picture, people thought that war was adventure, the fight was glorious, but they never knew what it was.

Does art influence history? Students may study the influence of photos on history. How will Matthew Brady's civil war photograph give information and influence the recognition of the civil war country? During the sandstorm, you may be interested in the picture of Louis Hein's child labor, which led to the Keating-Owen law and the famous immigration pictures of Dorothy Lange. As with other NHD themes, these themes provide an attractive opportunity for students to explore history and learn to use the diversity of primary and secondary resources. This year's theme will also provide teachers with philosophical discussions about individual behavior and responsibilities.

For many people, Mathew Brady is a famous civil war photographer. His photos took us to Gettysburg and Antitam, Fredericksburg and Richmond. His images of pessimistic and shocking war aroused the tragedy of the American war. However, civil war pictures are only a part of Brady's story. So, who else is Matthew Brady? What else did he complete? Why is Brady and his photograph important? From mid-nineteenth to late, I learned a lot about Mathew Brady and its contemporaries, but little is known about Brady's private life. He did not write diaries and autobiography, and he only made a few interviews in his life (Sullivan, 1994, p. 6). I do not have a birth certificate, but he may have been born to immigrant parents in 1823. In the first part of his life, he lived in the countryside in northern New York (Sullivan, 1994, p. 8). After becoming a friend with an up-and-coming artist William Page, Brady took him to New York at the age of sixteen. This is just the beginning of his success.

Prior to the war, Matthew Brady was born in Warren County, New York in 1822. His parents are Irish immigrants, Andrew and Julia Brady. People do not know much about his early life. Before his career as a photographer, he was a clerk at a department store and later started his own small business to make jewelry boxes. When he met William Page, he was heading for Albany for an unknown reason, and the painter William Page introduced him to Samuel, Samuel Morse. Morse taught him how to take a silver picture, the picture was created on a silver plated copper plate. After he mastered the silver version of the camera, he opened his own miniature gallery to show his picture. This is a successful gallery. He received a medal every year from 1844 to 1850. He also began shooting famous Americans such as Edgar Allen Poe and James Cooper. Even his vision