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Mathew Brady and the image of history by Mary Panzer; Jeana Kae Foley; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution); Fogg Art Museum.; International Center of Photography is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In Mathew Brady And The Image Of History, Mary Panzer Describes How Brady Used The Documentary Medium Of Photography To Portray A Stable, Purposeful, Patriotic Republic During The Decades When The National Identity Was Fragmenting. She Charts The Most Productive Years Of Brady's Career, From His Emergence In 1844 As A Daguerreotypist In New York To His Bankruptcy In Washington, D.c., In 1872. Intent On Creating A National Portrait Gallery Of Famous Leaders That Would Connect Such Luminaries As Daniel Webster And Henry Clay With The Civil War Leaders Who Succeeded Them - And With Future Generations - Brady Assiduously Courted His Subjects, Enhancing Their Reputations Along With His Own. Taking Advantage Of Emerging Photographic Paper Printing Techniques To Create Large-format, Classically Posed Portraits, Brady Also Collaborated With Painters Such As G.p.a. Healy And Alonzo Chappel, Who Used His Photographs To Complete Their Own Heroically Scaled Images. Contending That Brady's Photographs Contribute To An Ongoing National Interest In The Civil War, Panzer Concludes That They Continue To Function As Brady Hoped They Would, Constructing An Idealized History In Which Fact And Memory A

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Author

Mary Panzer; Jeana Kae Foley; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution); Fogg Art Museum.; International Center of Photography

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588341433

Category

history

Subjects

Photography, Memoir, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14