The photographs of Mathew Brady became icons of American identity. One of his portraits of Abraham Lincoln has entered the collective memory of the world. Today, it is one of the best known and most widespread images of all. It adorns the five-dollar note and is a symbol of American capitalism. Of the 19 presidents of the USA between 1825 and 1896, Brady portrayed 18, with only the 9th president, William Henry Harrison, not included. He died in office, three days before the official photo session with the well-known portraitist. His name, however, is linked to one of the most traumatic events in American history, the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
Brady was born in New York as the son of Irish immigrants and began an apprenticeship with the portrait painter William Page at the age of 16. Here he developed his passion for the human physiognomy, which only found its artistic expression after another encounter with Samuel F. B. Morse. With Morse, Brady was confronted with the methods of daguerreotype, the first technical imaging process. He was fascinated by the technical imaging of human beings and over the next decades he actively participated in the development of photography and also changed imaging technologies several times. In addition to commissioned works in his photo studio opened in New York, Brady worked on a "Gallery of Illustrious Americans", which established his reputation and earned him a number of international awards as a photographer.
With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, the photographer's subject changed. In the beginning he tried to earn money with the Civil War by an advertising campaign, in which he offered families to photograph their sons before they went to war. Under the motto "You can tell, how soon it may be too late", he worked with the families' fear of loss. But then he found his artistic calling and established himself as a war photographer who documented the battles and human sacrifices of war on both sides. He received permission from Abraham Lincoln to accompany the Northern troops, but with the restriction that he had to pay for the financing himself. With his camera and portable darkroom, Brady moved into the direct battlefield and gave a face to the horror of the first technological war in human history. The project grew and by the end of the war in 1865 Brady employed a total of 17 assistants who had produced over 10,000 photographic plates. Brady invested over $100,000 in the campaign in the hope that the government would subsequently pay for the costs incurred. But after the end of the war, the cruelty of the battlefields became taboo and Brady was granted only $25,000 by the U.S. government in 1875. Brady died completely impoverished and blinded in New York, but his photographs of the American Civil War live on.
×
Passionate Customer Service
.jpg "Locomotive on the United States Military Railroad, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Union Brig. Gen. Samuel Wylie Crawford and staff, summer 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Forrest Hall Prison, Washington, D.C. by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Deck of the")
.jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-199597).jpg "General Benjamin F. Butler, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-199597).jpg)
.jpg "Army Hospital near Washington, D.C., 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, at His Headquarters, Illustration from")
.jpg)
.jpg "Discussing the Probabilities of an Advance by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown, 3rd May 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "St. Michael")
.jpg)
 June 1864 - April 1865 - (MeisterDrucke-241923).jpg "A Sutler")
 June 1864 - April 1865 - (MeisterDrucke-241923).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-94583).jpg "Portrait of Gideon Welles (1802-78) by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-94583).jpg)
.jpg "General Grant by Tree, City Point, 1864 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Unidentified bald man with moustache, printed in vignette-style by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Transportation of Supplies, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Lewis Cass, from")
.jpg)
.jpg "Headquarters of the New York Herald in the Field at Culpeper Court House by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-315397).jpg "Managers of the House of Representatives of the Impeachment, 1868 by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-315397).jpg)
.jpg "Mary Todd Lincoln, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "President Lincoln in the last week of his life, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Fort Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Rutherford B. Hayes before his inauguration as President, 1877 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-242725).jpg "Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale (1850) by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-242725).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-281402).jpg "Portrait of General Winfield Scott, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-281402).jpg)
.jpg "John Henry and Reuben at Leisure by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "James Fenimore Cooper by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Falling Water Bridge, Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Admiral David D. Porter, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Millard Fillmore, from")
.jpg)
.jpg "Admiral David G. Farragut, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General Heintzelman Entertaining Friends at the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "The Post Office, Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Camp of Confederate Prisoners by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "The Last Interview between President Lincoln and General McClellan at Antietam by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Headquarters of the Christian Commission, Richmond, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Lincoln")
.jpg)
.jpg "Winter Quarters and Corduroy Road, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-166682).jpg "The camp of the 31st Pennsylvania Infantry near Fort Slocum by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-166682).jpg)
.jpg "William Evans Burton, Engraved by W. G. Jackman, 1875 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "President Lincoln and General McLellan in McLellan")
.jpg)
.jpg "General Robert E. Lee at His House in Richmond, April 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "White House Landing on the Pamunkey, 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
_at_his_Headquarters_c1864_-_(MeisterDrucke-185659).jpg "General Custer (1839-76) at his Headquarters, c.1864 by Mathew B. Brady")
_at_his_Headquarters_c1864_-_(MeisterDrucke-185659).jpg)
.jpg "Abraham Lincoln seated, in profile by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General Benjamin F. Butler, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Making Gabions in Front of Petersburg, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-305535).jpg "Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady, c.1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-305535).jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of Henry W. Halleck by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General Zachary Taylor, from")
.jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-55087).jpg "Edgar Allan Poe by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-55087).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1594875).jpg "Brevet Major-General John Henry Martindale (1815 - 1881) by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-1594875).jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of the Composer William Vincent Wallace, 1855 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General A. E. Burnside in Camp by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Union Brig. Gen. Abner Doubleday, early 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "President Lincoln Visiting the Camp at Antietam, 4th October 1892 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of James Fenimore Cooper by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Andrew Johnson, c.1855-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General Ulysses Simpson Grant, engraved after a daguerreotype by Robert E. Whitechurch by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Deck of Gunboat and Crew, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Grapevine Bridge over the Chickahominy River by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-242492).jpg "Portrait of General George B. McClellan by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-242492).jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-157674).jpg "Portrait of Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln and Major J. A. McClernand by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-157674).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-109165).jpg "Portrait of General George Henry Thomas by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-109165).jpg)
_(litho)_-_(MeisterDrucke-37703).jpg "Portrait of John Alexander Logan by Mathew B. Brady")
_(litho)_-_(MeisterDrucke-37703).jpg)
.jpg "Edward VII as Prince of Wales, New York by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General George G. Meade in Camp by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Union Brig. Gen. John M. Schofield, late 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General Hospital, City Point by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
 c1864 (sepia photo) - (MeisterDrucke-207248).jpg "Union Martyrs, Photographs of Union Generals Killed During the War by Mathew B. Brady")
 c1864 (sepia photo) - (MeisterDrucke-207248).jpg)
.jpg "Samuel F.B. Morse by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
_politician_and_leader_of_the_Free_State_Party_of_Ka_-_(MeisterDrucke-916504).jpg "James Henry Lane (1814-1866), politician and leader of the Free State Party of Kansas, full-length portrait, with gun (sepia photo) by Mathew B. Brady")
_politician_and_leader_of_the_Free_State_Party_of_Ka_-_(MeisterDrucke-916504).jpg)
.jpg "Company of Infantry near Harper")
.jpg)
.jpg "An Army Supply Train, Virginia, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Landing Supplies on the James River, Virginia, 1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "President Rutherford B. Hayes by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Yankee Headquarters, Camp Whinfield, 3rd May 1862 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General U. S. Grant")
.jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-155008).jpg "Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady, c.1865 by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-155008).jpg)
.jpg "Bridge built by troops on the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "General Grant")
.jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-75879).jpg "Portrait of George Stoneman (1822-94) by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-75879).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-42858).jpg "Portrait of Philip Henry Sheridan by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-42858).jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-313010).jpg "Inauguration of President Lincoln, 4th March 1861 by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-313010).jpg)
.jpg "Destruction of the Rail Road at Manassas by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Washington in the 1860")
.jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-313257).jpg "Cooks in a large camp mess hall during the American Civil War by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-313257).jpg)
.jpg "President Franklin Pierce by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Provost Marshall")
.jpg)
 - (MeisterDrucke-243321).jpg "Phineas Taylor Barnum by Mathew B. Brady")
 - (MeisterDrucke-243321).jpg)
.jpg "Building Winter Quarters at City Point, 1861-65 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Ruins at City Point - After the Explosion by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Captain Battery by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
_-_(MeisterDrucke-648720).jpg "Major-General Joseph Hooker, c.1863 by Mathew B. Brady")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-648720).jpg)
.jpg "Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy, 1859-60 by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Both Sides, the Cause by James F. Gibson")
.jpg)
.jpg "General George Thomas by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
.jpg "Robert E. Lee by Mathew B. Brady")
.jpg)
+43 4257 29415
support@meisterdrucke.com
Mo-Do: 7:00 - 16:00 | Fr: 7:00 - 13:00
