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Mathew Brady and the Image of History

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Charting the most productive years in the career of one of the nineteenth century's most renowned portrait photographers, Mary Panzer shows how Mathew Brady used the documentary medium of photography to depict a stable, purposeful, patriotic republic during the decades when national identity was fragmenting. She contends that this constructed, idealized history has continued to exert power throughout the twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 232

Format: Hardcover

Release: September 17, 1997

ISBN 13: 9781560987932

Mathew Brady and the Image of History

0/5 ( ratings)

Charting the most productive years in the career of one of the nineteenth century's most renowned portrait photographers, Mary Panzer shows how Mathew Brady used the documentary medium of photography to depict a stable, purposeful, patriotic republic during the decades when national identity was fragmenting. She contends that this constructed, idealized history has continued to exert power throughout the twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 232

Format: Hardcover

Release: September 17, 1997

ISBN 13: 9781560987932

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