"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."
"Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 244 pages; Description: xix, 244 p. Illus. , ports. , map. 32 cm. Subjects: Brady, Mathew B. , 1823 (ca. ) -1896. Photography--United States--History. Notes: "A picture album": p. [91]-[228]. Includes bibliographies."
"Peruse Press is proud to present this entirely new edition of the "History of the Big Bonanza" by Dan De Quille (William Wright), with an introduction by Mark Twain, and many historic photos by Carleton E. Watkins, Charles L. Weed, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, James H. Crockwell, Lawrence & Houseworth, and others. Added to this edition is a new prologue of select droll barbs between Dan De Quille and Mark Twain extracted from 1864 editions ..."
"This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Chris Killip - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer."
"This magnificent portrait gallery documents the men who took command during the dark and bloody days of the nation's greatest internal calamity. Two dozen photographs, the work of famed Civil War photographer Mathew Brady and his contemporaries, depict a roster of celebrated Union and Confederate leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. Also depicted are Confederate officers James Longstr ..."
"Poetic responses to 42 photographs taken from 1854 to 1997, mostly in times of war. The reader looks at the photo on the left page and measures the author's response on the right, meanwhile living through trying moments of history."
Civil War Photos 24 Cards (Dover Postcards) by MathewBrady, Francis A. Davis 6 Pages, Published 1994 by Mineola, New York, U.S.A.: Dover Pubns, 1994 ISBN-13: 978-0-486-28132-2, ISBN: 0-486-28132-9
"A treasury of 24 historic images documents the War Between the States. Taken while the medium was still in its infancy, these memorable photographs date from the days of America's second revolution. Featuring the work of such distinguished artists as Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and T. H. O’Sullivan, they include portraits of Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Sherman, and other notables; camp scenes of soldiers at work and rest; battlefields fro ..."
"This list is extremely well chosen: it includes the most important figures working in the medium of photography from the beginning of the medium right up to the present, and across the worlds of art and journalism. Each title tells the story of the photographer with the chronologically-presented photographs showing the development of their ideas and their work. The text tells the reader what they need to know about the photographer and ..."
"Walker Evans' radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising, movies, and car culture as central images of modern American identity. Walker Evans & Company focuses on Evans as a central figure in the arts of the 1920s and 3 ..."
"A photographic chronicle of landmark buildings and projects under construction from the 1860s onward, from the Washington Monument to the Channel Tunnel. Rosenbaum, head of the Historic American Engineering Record, draws on news accounts, architects' records, and other archival sources to describe the evolution of architectural and construction techniques. He discusses some 85 structures, such as skyscrapers, public monuments, bridges, ..."
MathewBrady(1st Edition) (American Photography) by Barry Pritzker, MathewBrady Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2004 by Jg Press/World Publications Group, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-57215-342-4, ISBN: 1-57215-342-3
"Mathew Brady Product Details Hardcover Publisher: JG Press/World Publications Group, Inc.; First Edition edition (2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 1572153423 Dimensions: 14.5 x 10.4 x 0.7 inches"
"Cada volumen de 128 páginas se centra en el trabajo de la vida de un maestro individual y contiene una introducción informativa y 55 trabajos clave acompañado por textos explicativos. Como parte del programa en curso, cada título de la colección 55 ofrece una historia de la vida moderna. Mathew Brady (1823-96) fue el retratista de su época. Su disposición a adoptar nuevas tecnologías y su talento para la publicidad lo ayudó a convertir ..."
MathewBrady by MathewBrady Paperback, Published by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-4135-9, ISBN: 0-7148-4135-8
"Well, the Grand Army of the Potomac had not fairly inaugurated its campaign in
the spring of 1862, before the active little ... chief with his military secrets)
intended to take to the Peninsula nearly the entire Grand Army of the Potomac,
the President ... had converted it into an iron-clad warrior, which they named
Virginia, commanded by Captain Buchanan of our navy. ... this vessel attacked
and destroyed the wooden sailing friga ..."
"A biography of the photographer of famous men and women of his time who left his studio at the zenith of his career to travel with Union troops photographing the Civil War."
"Perhaps no nation has been so thoroughly shaped by its dreams as has America, and perhaps no other dreams have been captured on camera as often and as diversely as America's. The mythic American Dream has been the subject of photographic documentation since the 1840s, when photographers first began traveling to the New World in search of subjects. From an unknown photographer's picture of newborn George B. Billings Rego, scion of an imm ..."