Mathew Brady and the Image of History
Category: Books,History,Americas
Mathew Brady and the Image of History Details
Review “This book of revisionist art history . . . takes as its subject one of America’s most iconic and revered figures. . . . It opens a new chapter in thinking about the portrayal of American life of the last century.”—New York Times Book Review“Depicts Brady’s huge range of work for the first time in more than a century and outlines . . . his ambitious quest to create a kind of visual history of America.”—Washington Post“Ms. Panzer’s thoughtful, occasionally elegiac book brings up many of the issues involved in the recording and manufacture of history through images . . . [Brady] wrote history on the spot so that future citizens could read in his pictures what their country stood for when it was still young.”—Vicki Goldberg, author of American Photography: A Century of Images, in New York Times Read more About the Author Mary Panzer teaches at Hunter College and New York University and writes on photography and American history. She lives in New York City. Read more
Reviews
this is almost entirely a book of brady's portrait work, which is fine and dandy, but there is almost nothing in what one would typically think of as civil war photos.
