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Samuel Morse
invented morse code and telegraph, painter, trained Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady
made the first extended photographic coverage of a war, The war photographers worked with collodion-on-glass (wet-plate) negatives. Focused on acquiring and publishing negatives made by his team.
trained by Samuel Morse on the daguerreotype, father of American journalism, used large negatives and panoramas from contact prints
creator of “The Gallery of Illustrious Americans” (1850)
by Mathew Brady using daguerreotypes, contain the portraits and biographical sketches of twenty-four of the most eminent citizens of the American republic
Camera Operators
responsible for setting up and capturing the shot of a film, show, or other production
Alexander Gardner
Mathew Brady’s gallery director, had been appointed to General George McClellan’s staff with the honorary rank of captain.
He and a small corps of photographers copy maps and charts for the Secret Service, which were distributed as photographic prints to both field and division commanders.
For two years, Gardner worked as a field photographer. He left Brady in November 1862 and established his own business, taking with him many of Brady’s most experienced staff. Took Brady’s photos and not give credit
had a National Portrait Gallery, NYC
Mathew Brady’s gallery, his last studio
photographed the Battle of Antietam Photographs (1862)
photographed by Gardner, the first extensively photograph to exist of the deadliest single day of combat in American history
George S. Cook
confederate photographer
Anaconda Plan
a strategy to defeat the Confederacy during the American Civil War by strangling the Confederacy by cutting it off from external markets and sources of material. It included blockading Southern coasts and securing control of the Mississippi River.
Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
photographed by Brady and O’Sullivan, a three-day battle fought in Pennsylvania from July 1–3, 1863
Lincoln’s “The Gettysburg Portrait” (1863) photographer
taken on November 8, 1863 by Alexander Gardner, taken just days before Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address
Timothy O’Sullivan
Apprentices to Mathew Brady,
When the early events of the Civil War suggested no immediate resolution of the conflict, O’Sullivan abandoned the Washington, D.C., gallery for four years in the field. He produced views of bridges, encampments, hospitals, and battlefields that he sent back to Brady and then to Gardner, whose studio he joined officially in the winter of 1862–63.
Gardner’s “Sketchbook” (1866)
Civil war book by Alexander Gardner. The publication, which includes 100 albumen silver prints, is egalitarian.
Deeply offended by Brady’s habit of obscuring the names of the field operators behind the deceptive credit “Brady,” Gardner specifically identified each of the eleven photographers in the publication.