Matthew brady photographer biography sample

Mathew B. Brady is the most famous photographer of the American Civil War. Although best known for his photographs of the war, Brady had established himself as one of the country’s preeminent photographers long before the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in 1861.

Mathew Brady's Early Life

Born in 1823 or 1824 in Warren County, New York, near Lake George, Brady moved to New York about 1839.

That year, Frenchman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre unveiled to the world the first practical and marketable form of photography—a photograph on a silver plate known as a daguerreotype.

Brady said he learned the process of making a daguerreotype in classes taught by inventor Samuel F.B.

Morse, who personally knew Daguerre and helped introduce the daguerreotype in America, where it spread like wildfire.

Brady Opens New York Photo Gallery

In 1844, Brady opened his “Daguerrean Miniature Gallery” on Broadway.

With a keen sense of self-promotion, Brad