Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady
Mathew B. Bradywas one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth18 May 1822
CityWarren County, NY
CountryUnited States of America
photography art thinking
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
photography feet spirit
I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.
eye cameras
The camera is the eye of history.
appreciate world changed
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
country mother men
From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers