The Apparition

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The Apparition

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Mathew B. Brady

American Photographer · 1823–1896

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> The correspondents of the rebel newspapers are sheer falsifiers, the correspondents of the Northern Journals are not to be depended upon . . . but Brady never misrepresents. > > Though known first as a portraitist, Mathew Brady became the most famous American photographer of the 1800s because of his studio's many Civil War images. Like other enterprising photographers in the mid-1850s, he opened

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Date: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Illustration of a crowd of people in a room. They all huddle behind a wooden desk, looking towards a man standing on the left side of the image. The man wears armor and a helmet. A man and woman stand in the foreground embracing as they watch him.

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