Book. After the civil war king had led one of the important scientific migszs of the west and was the first person to incorporate photograph 23i into that sort of study. He chose to accompany him, a man who is becoming one of the Great American photographers timmy o sullivan, who then worked with king on the survey for three years. Osullivan had been a protojaj e jay of Matthew Brady quite possibly meeting him in the early 1850s as a boy where brady had a photographic portrait gallery. I realized that there was no first rate big ra fill of Matthew Brady and it seemed to me to deserve one. Heres a very flat i recall inging painting of brady. The years since have been a lesson in just how little i knew about the man when i decided to write about him. And how little i knew was accurate it should have struck me that if there was not a good book about such an important figure, there might be a reason why. He did not keep a journal or write a memoir. Wrote only a handful of prefungt ri lette
And how it changed in the following years. He also talks about the difference in subject matter and composition between brady and other photographers at the time. This hourlong event was part of the lincoln forums annual similar symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to be here again. Our first speaker this morning robert wilson, the author of a new wellreceived book on Matthew Brady. Mr. Wilson has written for many prominent newspapers and journals and held editorial posts at many of those same institutions. Hes currently editor of the american scholar. Hes written two previous books as well as a certain somewhere writers on the place they remember. Hell be talking about Matthew Brady today. Brady is an interesting character. Weve all looked at dozens, probably hundreds of bradys photographs. I suspect many of you join me having not known much about Matthew Brady, the man himself who took much of these photographs. He not only captured history b