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Mathew Brady and the Image of History by Fogg Art Museum, Jeana Kae Foley, Mary Panzer, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1997, Hardcover) 
Mathew Brady and the Image of History by Fogg Art Museum, Jeana Kae Foley, Mary Panzer, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1997, Hardcover)

 
Mathew Brady and the Image of History by Fogg Art Museum, Jeana Kae Foley, Mary Panzer, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1997, Hardcover)

Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1560987936
ISBN-13: 9781560987932
Product ID: EPID999883
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Publication Date:1997-09-01

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Length:232 pages
Height:11.8 in
Width:9.3 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:50.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Charting the most productive years in the career of the renowned nineteenth century portrait photographer, Mary panzer shows how Mathew Brady used his images of famous contemporaries to construct a potent history of a purposeful, patriotic republic during the decades when the national identity was fragmented by the Civil war.

In Mathew Brady and the Image of History, Mary Panzer describes how Brady used the documentary medium of photography to portray a stable, purposeful, patriotic republic during the decades when the national identity was fragmenting. She charts the most productive years of Brady's career, from his emergence in 1844 as a daguerreotypist in New York to his bankruptcy in Washington, D.C., in 1872. Intent on creating a "national portrait gallery" of famous leaders that would connect such luminaries as Daniel Webster and Henry Clay with the Civil War leaders who succeeded them - and with future generations - Brady assiduously courted his subjects, enhancing their reputations along with his own. Taking advantage of emerging photographic paper printing techniques to create large-format, classically posed portraits, Brady also collaborated with painters such as G.P.A. Healy and Alonzo Chappel, who used his photographs to complete their own heroically scaled images. Contending that Brady's photographs contribute to an ongoing national interest in the Civil War, Panzer concludes that they continue to function as Brady hoped they would, constructing an idealized history in which fact and memory are intertwined.

Industry Reviews
"This book...takes as its subject one of American photography's most revered and iconic figures [and] opens a new chapter in thinking about the portrayals of American life of the last century."
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