Matthew Brady x.htm Who, where, when and so what?
Taking the photo take.htmlhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cw take.html What was the process?
Grigsby's House, Centreville, Virginia (Headquarters of General Joseph E. Johnston, after battle of Bull Run)
Wounded soldiers in hospital
Burying Confederate dead, Fredericksburg, VA
Abraham Lincoln
Ruins of Richmond VA 1865
Jefferson Davis: president of Confederacy
Confederate dead behind stone wall
Effect of a 32 pound shell from the 2 nd Mass, Fredericksburg, VA
General Ulysses S. Grant and group at City Point
Lincoln and his generals
? Understanding how the images were taken and developed, what insight do you now possess on the scope of Matthew Brady’s collection of Civil War imagery? Compare and contrast the work of Brady with Fenton What ethical issues are raised by war photography?
Resources l/im11/im11page8.asphttp:// l/im11/im11page8.asp
Critique 1.Describe: all the shapes, lines, values, colors, textures, light and objects 2.Analyze: How did Brady use line, value, light, color, texture and objects? Patterns? 3.Interpret: what does it mean? What is the purpose? 4.Judgement: is it successful?