Engineering Corps / Mathew Brady
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.31
- Title
- Engineering Corps
- Artist
- Mathew Brady
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1823 - 1892, )
- Medium and Support
- albumen print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1861
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Dimensions
- 27.9 cm x 42.9 cm (11 in. x 16 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- A group of soldiers stand and sit in a landscape; some face the camera while others are posed engaged in conversation. Behind them stand several tall trees and between them a tent with the flaps decorated with an American flag. Seated alone to the left is a young African-American man holding a broom.
- Subject Matter
- Mathew Brady was a successful photographer with studios in both Washington, DC and New York City. When the American Civil War broke out, Brady sought permission to travel with the Army to document the war. After securing permission, he trained and stationed teams of photographers equipped with mobile darkroom wagons throughout the areas of fighting. As he said, "I had men in all parts of the army, like a great newspaper." Brady covered all the expenses out of his own funds.
- Although other photographers, notably Roger Fenton in the Crimean War (1853-56), made photographic records of battlefields, Brady's effort with his teams of photographers made the Civil War the first protracted war that was comprehensively documented through the new medium of photography.
- Secondary Keywords
- army
- figures
- military
- objects
- people and occupations
- plants
- tents
- the natural world
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1123 x 777
- File Size
- 71 KB
- Record
- 1978/2.31
- Link to this Item
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"Engineering Corps; Mathew Brady." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1978-sl-2.31/1978_2.31.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 15, 2024.
