Matthew B. Brady
Mathew B. Brady: Civil War Photographer Mathew B. Brady: Civil War Photographer was written by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk. Elizabeth Van Steenwyk has written many good books for young people including: Saddlebag Salesmen, The California Missions, Frederic Remington, The California Gold Rush: West with the Forty-Niners, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Woman of Courage. Elizabeth now lives in San Marino, California with her husband. Mathew B. Brady was born somewhere between 1823 and 1824. His early life is somewhat a mystery. He was born in Warren County in New York and his parents might have been Irish immigrants. His middle name was even a mystery, when asked what the "B" stood for he said that he inserted it because it seemed "more distinguished." When he turned 16 he met William Page, a man wanting to become an artist. The both of them worked together, and Page's artistic abilities were most likely Brady's starting interest in becoming a photographer. In 1839 or 1840 Brady and Page moved to New York City. Meanwhile, a French inventor named Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre was inventing something that
Gardner was mad because Brady supposedly took credit for pictures that Gardner photographed. Brady left for Europe and then signed up for the contest. Brady signed up for lessons to learn how to use the new process. Brady, very interested in the camera, signed up for lessons. They finally bought one set of negatives for twenty-five thousand dollars, but it was to late because he had already given his other set to a company that he had high debts in. When Samuel Morse returned to New York City and started a school for learning how to use the camera. In 1863, Alexander Gardner left Brady and started his own photography business. Julia Handy, his wife, died in 1887. He wrote back to a magazine saying that it was perhaps the greatest invention in this age. So Brady and several of his colleagues traveled to the battlefields and there they photographed the war. Brady's life is about to hit another climax, this climax is the Civil War. His eyesight was very bad by the end of the war.
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