One of the first Americans to become proficient at photography, Mathew Brady earned eternal fame—and poverty—for documenting the carnage of the Civil War. By 1854, he was already photographing ...

Photography was still relatively new in 1861 as the Civil ... war, because the Industrial Revolution had produced the machinery of death on an unprecedented scale. Photographers Matthew Brady ...

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...

The Lincoln portion comes from a Jan. 8, 1864, photo-portrait session with noted Civil War photographer Mathew Brady: The cat portion, meanwhile, comes from a stock photograph on the website ...

Antietam also inspired the first intensive photographic coverage of a Civil War engagement—or, at least, of its horrific aftermath. A New York exhibition of Mathew Brady battlefield photographs ...

Alex Garland’s new film, “Civil War,” follows two war photographers ... who started the war working for the better-­known Mathew Brady, then went out on his own. All the photographs were ...

Mathew Brady is known for his Civil War photography and groundbreaking work in the field. Read more about the Civil War at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history ...