![]() This may have prompted Gardner to quit Brady’s job and open his own gallery in Washington in May 1863. York, “The Dead of Antietam,” drew large crowds.īrady’s ambitious efforts often exceeded his business acumen, and he was often in financial difficulty. In 1862, after his Washington gallery director Alexander Gardner captured shocking and gruesome photos of American soldiers who died as they fell on the Antietam battlefield, Brady’s exhibition in his New York gallery. He was forced to flee to Washington with the entire army when it was routed in the Battle of First Bull Run. But he returned with no image of the battlefield. When the Union Army advanced into Virginia in July 1861, Brady followed it. A spirit in my feet said ‘Go’ and I’m gone, ‘he told an interviewer in 1891 with his typical dramatic flair. ![]() “My wife and my more conservative friends had taken a dim view of this shift from commercial affairs to pictorial war correspondence, and I can only describe the fate that knocked me down by saying that, like Euphorion, I felt I had to go. Taken by Mathew Brady on February 27, 1860, the Cooper Union portrait of Abraham Lincoln is one of the few full-length photographs of him before he became president.īettmann Archives / Getty Images Brady captures the civil warīrady was eager to capture Civil War photographs and stereograms from the start. ![]()
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