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    Matthew Brady 18221896 No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives.

    The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life. Matthew Brady is most renowned for documenting over 10,000 photographs during the American Civil War. (1861-1865) He grew up in the rural town of Glens Falls in Warren County, New York. He was the son of an Irish Immigrant, Andrew Brady. As a youth, Brady had severe inflammation of the eyes which almost rendered him blind. He started off his employment as an assistant to a portrait painter named William Page. Through Page, he met Samuel Morse, who was using the photographic process known as Daguerreotype which was a process invented by 2 Frenchmen, Jacques Mand Daguerre and Joseph Niepce. Morse taught Brady the photographic process. Daguerreotype involved the use of a polished silver surface called a Sheffield plate. The surface was initially exposed to iodine fumes followed by exposure to bromine and chlorine which produced a light-sensitive silver halide coating. The plate was then inserted in a light-tight plate holder and exposed to sunlight via box camera to etch the image onto the plate. After exposure, there was a chemical development process used to stabilize and arrest the image on the plate which appeared either positive or negative depending on the exposure. There is doubt as to how many of the 10,000 plus photographs were personally taken by Matthew Brady. By Aug. 1862, he had over one dozen photographers, and 35 bases of operation covering the war. He boasted, I had men in all parts of the army, like a great newspaper. Nevertheless, his photographs are infamous, and he will be remembered as a great photojournalist of a war that divided America. He died in 1896 almost destitute.

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