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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 1: Photographing the Civil War (search)
emost of Brady's men, and here let me doff my hat to the name of M. B. Brady — few to-day are worthy to carry his camera case, even as far asr boys who came home invalided we heard of that grand picture-maker Brady, as they called him. When I made some views (with the only apparscouragements, the men imbued with vim and forcefulness by the Only Brady kept right along and to-day the world can enjoy these wonderful viemost as romantic a tale as that of their making. The net result of Brady's efforts was a collection of over seven thousand pictures (two negt its use for commercial purposes. (The $25,000 tardily voted to Mr. Brady by Congress did not retrieve his financial fortunes, and he died rk hospital, poor and forgotten, save by a few old-time friends. Brady's own negatives passed in the seventies into the possession of Anththey became the backbone of the Ordway-Rand collection; and in 1895 Brady himself had no idea what had become of them. Many were broken, los
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 2; the photographic record as history (search)
science, requiring absolute knowledge, training, and experience. Only experts like the men that Brady trained could do such work as this. There were no lightning shutters, no automatic or universalraphs which were secured, during the campaigns of our great war, by the pluck and persistence of Brady and Gardner, and the negatives of which have, almost miraculously, been preserved through the vi Another photograph in the series, which is an example of special enterprise on the part of Mr. Brady, presents Lincoln and McClellan in consultation some time after this bloody and indecisive batee's invasion of Maryland and had enabled the President to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Brady's camera has preserved this remarkable occasion, the last time that these two men met each otherition of Longstreet's lines. The editors have fortunately been able to include with the great Brady series of army photographs a private collection, probably unique, of more than four hundred view