The Civil War photographers also captured scenes of the war outside the dead and battlefields. Mathew Brady/Library of Congress Dead Confederate soldiers lie in a ditch in Antietam, Maryland.

Mathew Brady, a 19th century pioneer of American photography, was known for both his portraits of celebrities as well as for his searing images of the Civil War. Jeffrey Brown talks to Robert ...

If you’ve ever seen a portrait of a Civil War soldier or the landscape of a battlefield just after the cannon-fire has been silenced, then you’re familiar with the work of Mathew Brady. Now meet the ...

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 ...

When you think of the Civil War, the images you think of are most likely the work of Mathew Brady and his associates. One of the most successful early photographers in American history ...

NPG, Mathew Brady Studio, 1864 In a photograph no bigger ... Her name is Pauline Cushman, an actress turned Civil War spy whose story dances between the boundary dividing history and fiction.

Since its creation, this country has been served by men and women willing to put their lives on the line. To guard the American values of freedom and justice, heroes and sacrifices are made ...

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 ...

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 ...