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103 - Historian With A Camera: Matthew Brady
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The American Civil War was the first major conflict extensively recorded by the camera. Its lens gave a nation a realistic view of war through what we would now call photojournalism. And though there were several who made those images, one, in particular, is best known. A pioneer and dreamer who sometimes at personal and constant financial risk dared to bring the camps and battlefields of the American Civil War into galleries and front parlors of those at home. This is the story of perhaps the first American photojournalist. This is the story of the “historian with a…
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