Mathew Brady - Civil War Photographer

Who is this famous Civil War photographer?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Alexander Gardner

• Mathew Brady

• Frederick Douglass

How do you feel when you see an image like this?

Compare that to this image. How do you feel when you see a photograph like this?

Photography had existed for only ___decades when the Civil War broke out. From the start the public was fascinated by these pictures that seemed, unlike drawings and paintings, to capture reality.

When the war began, hundreds of photographers, both at their studios and in the field, were ready to cover the conflict. They took countless _________ of common soldiers and sold them in a popular card-size format.

Mathew Brady is the name most often associated with photographs of the Civil War. He not only photographed but also employed other photographers and exhibited the works at his galleries in Washington and New York. The first exhibition was of the aftermath of the battle of ​ (a)   , fought in September 1862.​ ​ ​

• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Bull Run
• Vicksburg

Which image is a Mathew Brady photograph taken of Lincoln BEFORE he was inaugurated as president?

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Photographers went into the field and returned with images of war: troops, workers, guns, bridges, buildings, boats, landscapes, and bodies—dead, bloated bodies—but not actual ______ because lengthy exposure time (as much as fifteen seconds) would produce only a blur.

This Mathew Brady image shows the ruins of Stone Bridge after this 1861 early battle.

• Fort Sumter

• Bull Run

• Gettysburg

• Appomattox

How did Mathew Brady develop his battlefield photographs?

• Right at the scene in his specially outfitted wagon

• He returned to his studio in New York City

• He sent the negatives with others to be developed

• He brought the negatives to Walmart for one hour developing