Irish-American Artists
Mathew Brady
The son of Irish immigrants, photographer Mathew Brady is considered the father of photojournalism for his uncensored documentation of the Civil War. In addition, his studio produced portraits of just about everyone who mattered, including 18 presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, and King Edward VII and General George S. Custer. His portraits of Abraham Lincoln are seminal, and our understand of the Civil War - especially its punishing brutality - rest on his images. When Brady exhibited his studio's photographs of the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, The New York Times wrote, "If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards along the streets, he has done something very like it..." Brady died in a charity ward in New York, penniless, alone, and unacknowledged.
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