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Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823 – January 15 or January 16Most sources give January 15, 1896 as Brady's day of death. Panzer (1997, p. xxii) lists January 16., 1896) was a famous photographer of the American Civil War.
Brady was born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents. He moved to New York City at the age of 17. By 1844, he had his own photography studio in New York, and by 1845, Brady began to exhibit his portraits of famous Americans. He opened a studio in Washington, D.C. in 1849, where he met Juliette Handy, whom he married in 1851. Brady's early images were daguerreotypes, and he won many awards for his work; in the 1850's ambrotype photography became popular, which gave way to the albumen print, a paper photograph produced from large glass negatives most commonly used in the American Civil War photography. In 1859, Paris photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri introduced cartes de visite and these small pictures (the size of a visiting card) rapidly became a popular novelty with millions of these images sold in the United States.
Brady's efforts to document the Civil War on a grand scale by bringing his photographic studio right onto the battlefields earned Brady his place in history. Despite the obvious dangers, financial risk, and discouragement of his friends he is later quoted as saying "I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went." His first popular photographs of the conflict were at the First Battle of Bull Run, in which he got so close to the action that he only just avoided being captured.
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