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Item Details
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RANSOMING MATHEW BRADY
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| By: |
John Ransom Phillips, Alan Trachtenberg |
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Hardback |
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£37.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1555953263 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781555953263 |
| Publisher: |
HUDSON HILLS PRESS INC.,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
14 January, 2010 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
The photographs Mathew Brady made have long served to illustrate an era in American history, most notably his portraits of Abraham Lincoln and the images from the Civil War battlefields he captured. In a series of oils, watercolours, and prose, the author portrays the complexity of nineteenth-century photographer, Mathew Brady. |
| Synopsis: |
In a series of oils, watercolours, and prose full of wit and wisdom and rich with historical allusion, John Ransom Phillips portrays the complexity of nineteenth-century photographer, Mathew Brady. The photographs Brady made have long served to illustrate an era in American history, most notably his portraits of Abraham Lincoln and the images from the Civil War battlefields he captured. Pairing these photographs with his own work, Phillips explores the career of this artist who wanted to make history: An ambitious half-blind man with blue-tinted glasses, straw hat and duster who had the genius to look beyond his thriving New York portrait studio to the battles of the Civil War and was one of the first photographers to shoot in the open air. Paradoxically, Brady sent assistants to photograph his most famous scenes, the battlefields at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Antietam, instructing them to re-arrange the dead to create images that would enhance public notions about death and dying. |
| Illustrations: |
17 b&w, 266 col |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S. |
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Returnable |
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