Main entry:

Panzer, Mary, author.

Title & Author:

Mathew Brady and the image of history / Mary Panzer ; with an essay by Jeana K. Foley.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Portrait Gallery, [1997]
©1997.

Description:

xxiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Sept. 26, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Jan. 22-April 15, 1998;; International Center of Photography, Midtown New York City, May 1-July 19, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronology of Mathew Brady's life -- Introduction -- A brief biography -- "A perfect kaleidoscope" : New York City -- The making of a daguerreotypist -- Building a national gallery -- Photography and American art at midcentury -- Washington and the war years -- History as image, photography as art -- Notes. A gallery of images ; Plate captions and subject biographies -- Recollection the past : a collection ; Chronicle of Mathew Brady's photographs / Jeana K. Foley -- Appendix : Contemporary descriptions of Mathew Brady.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP0.80 0.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In Mathew Brady and the Image of History, Mary Panzer describes how Brady used the documentary medium of photography to portray a stable, purposeful, patriotic republic during the decades when the national identity was fragmenting. She charts the most productive years of Brady's career, from his emergence in 1844 as a daguerreotypist in New York to his bankruptcy in Washington, D.C., in 1872. Intent on creating a "national portrait gallery" of famous leaders that would connect such luminaries as Daniel Webster and Henry Clay with the Civil War leaders who succeeded them - and with future generations - Brady assiduously courted his subjects, enhancing their reputations along with his own.
Taking advantage of emerging photographic paper printing techniques to create large-format, classically posed portraits, Brady also collaborated with painters such as G.P.A. Healy and Alonzo Chappel, who used his photographs to complete their own heroically scaled images. Contending that Brady's photographs contribute to an ongoing national interest in the Civil War, Panzer concludes that they continue to function as Brady hoped they would, constructing an idealized history in which fact and memory are intertwined.

ISBN:

1560987936 (alk. paper)
9781560987932 (alk. paper)
1588341437
9781588341433

Subject:

Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 Exhibitions.
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 Catalogues.
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
Brady, Mathew B. Exhibitions.
Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896 Exhibitions.
Photographers United States Biography Exhibitions.
Portrait photography United States History Exhibitions.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies Expositions.
Portraits (Photographie) États-Unis Histoire Expositions.
Photography
Portrait photography
Portretfotografie.
Portrait photography United States Exhibitions.
Photographers United States Exhibitions.
Portrait photography Exhibitions.
Photographers Biography Exhibitions.
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Photography Exhibitions.
États-Unis Histoire 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) Photographie Expositions.
United States

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
collective biographies.
exhibition catalogs.
Biographies
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Foley, Jeana Kae, writer of supplementary textual content.
Foley, Jeana Kae
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Fogg Art Museum.
International Center of Photography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192552
Call No.: TR140.B7.P36 (ID:97-B3639)
Status: Available