Matthew brady gettysburg photos of the dead

Photographer Mathew Brady reached Gettysburg nearly two weeks after the battle ended 150 years ago this summer, forcing him to make decisions about what to photograph that he might not have made had he arrived sooner.

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His former protégés and now competitors, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O’Sullivan and James F. Gibson, had easily beaten him there, arriving just two days after the fighting stopped, when the chaos of the battle was still very much in evidence, most dramatically in the form of unburied bodies.

Gardner and Gibson, while still working for Brady’s Washington gallery, had been the first photographers to make images of the dead of war, at Antietam the previous September.

Brady had shown those searing pictures, taken in stereoscope or what we call 3-D, at his gallery in New York to some notice and acclaim. Now working for the studio that Gardner and his brother had started in the meantime, the two men and O’Sullivan once again focused their cameras on the lifeless bodies—eve 33 Battle Of Gettysburg Photos That Capture The "Harvest Of ...

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