Mathew B. Brady used his camera to record his country's history producing the greatest pictorial essay of our time.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

Through his specialized techniques and unique style, this photographer became famous for his photos of presidents, generals, and bloody battles fought during th

The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the “father of American photography.” Mathew Brady's at

Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barna