Introduction
Photography opened the world’s view. “Until 1839 the world was blind. Vision was limited to the immediate spectator or the art of the artist, but the rest of the world and history could not see” (Horan 3). People imagine things and do not believe it until they see it. Unless someone has really seen it they believe what they want. Mathew Brady showed people what war was really like. Before Mathew Brady’s pictures people thought that war was an adventure and fighting was honorable but they never knew what it was like. War was extremely violent and people did not realize this except the ones who had experienced it. When they saw the pictures of the war most people were appalled. “Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along the streets, he has done something very like it…” (New York Times 1862). Most people did not make it out of war alive to tell their story, so Mathew Brady told it for them. How did Mathew Brady’s photography of the Civil War change the Americans view on war? He showed people not only the reality but the brutality of war.
Mathew Brady was an amazing photographer. He is considered the father of photojournalism and the greatest photographer of the 19th century. He is most well-known for his photography of the Civil War. His photographs had a great impact on the people during the time of war. Many photographers today look to him for inspiration. His pictures tell powerful stories about the soldiers. These soldiers had families that they would never get to see again. Mathew Brady’s pictures are of images most people never want to see. He is forever remembered for the...
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"A picture is worth a thousand words," we say. From the eyes and mind of the archivist studying the pictures of Robert Ross' experience with war, they are worth a lot more. The photographs in the epilogue of Timothy Findley's "The Wars" play an important role in Findley establishing both a trust with the reader, and a sense of realism to his war story. This satisfies the need for realism in his tale. The result of this image that is brought forth through the medium of the photograph, is that we are forced to see the "before" and "after" of Roberts "experience" and figure out our way through what is deposited in between: the cause and effect.
There are many different ways in which the war was represented to the public, including drawings, newspaper articles, and detailed stereographs. Stereographs such as John Reekie’s “The Burial Party” invoked mixed feelings from all of those who viewed it. It confronts the deaths caused by the Civil War as well as touches upon the controversial issue over what would happen to the slaves once they had been emancipated. This picture represents the Civil War as a trade-off of lives- fallen soldiers gave their lives so that enslaved black men and women could be given back their own, even if that life wasn’t that different from slavery. In his carefully constructed stereograph “The Burial Party,” John Reekie confronts the uncertainty behind the newly
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Upon his return to the States, Gardner visited the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, where he would see the photographs of Mathew Brady for the very first time. Mathew Brady, a Civil War era photographer, known for his portrait photos and his long exposure times, captivated the eyes of Alexander Gardner (CWO). So
Born of Irish immigrants in 1823 in a little place called Warren County, New York; Mathew Brady is known as “The Father of Photojournalism.” While a student of Samuel Morse and a friend of Louis Daguerre (inventor of the “Daguerreotype,” a method of photography that the image is developed straight onto a metal coated surface), in which he had met while under the study of Morse, Brady took up his interest in photography in the year of 1839, while only seventeen years of age. Brady took what he had learned from these two talented and intellectual men to America where he furthered his interest in the then-growing art of photography.
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Timothy O’Sullivan is an american photographer who took most of his photos around the time of the civil war. It is unsure where Timothy was born but he is said to be born in New York or in Ireland. He was born in the year 1840 with the exact date being unknown. The date of his death was January 14, 1882 in Staten Island New York of tuberculosis (“Timothy”). There are no records on if O’Sullivan was married or had children. Very little is known about his childhood and about the early stages in his life(“The Life”). He truly was a man living under the radar.
“The camera is the eye of history” quoted by Mathew Brady. Mathew Brady was one of the most famous photographer during the time period of the Civil War. The American Civil War was a war fought in the United State during the time period of 1861 to 1865. The war was fought against the South (the Confederates) and North (the Union). The war started because of the issue of slavery and how equal divide it, when the new west territory came. The Civil War was the first war to be photographed. Many type of skill were formed during that time period. It shape way we take our pictures now and it got the public opinion to start forming about the media.
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Matthew Brady was one of the most famous photographers during this time. He was the “father of photojournalism” (civilwar.org). There are thousands of photographs of camp life taken by Brady. Brady also took portraits of important political figures like Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. He was born in Warren County, New York, and his parents were Irish immigrants