Mathew Brady: 100+ Portrait Reproductions - Photographs
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MATHEW BRADY: PORTRAITS contains 100+ Portrait Reproductions of personalities, statesman and military (1860-1865) with title and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).BORN: c1822 in Warren County, New York.DIED: January 15, 1896 in New York, New York.MOVEMENT: American PhotographyINTERESTING FACTS:§ Brady is best known for his portraits of personalities and documentation of the American Civil War.§ He is credited as being the father of photojournalism.§ In 1841, Brady studied under daguerreotypist Samuel F.B. Morse.§ In 1844, he opened his own photography studio in New York. In 1849, he opened another studio in Washington, D.C..§ To document the Civil War, Brady employed, Alexander Gardner, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, William Pywell, Thomas C. Roche and George N. Barnard.NOTABLE WORKS:Walt Whitman, Miss Clara Barton, Horace Greeley, General George A. Custer, Annie Surratt, Captain Edward P. Doherty.
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I like the photos but wish some restoration work had been done on them before they were put in the book to bring them back as close as possible to the way the look when they were originally taken. This is a picture book, but there are no captions on each page. The formatting is poor, in that the index provides is a name and a link to the picture, but if you want to read the caption for each photo prior to opening it you'd have to go back to the index after viewing each image as there is no text accompanying each picture. I think the author should revise the book and put a caption on each page with the photo telling us something about the picture, if the names of the models have been lost to history at least give us an idea of what year the photos were taken. The page turning animation is OK, but unnecessary--I guess Amazon felt that it had to follow Apple in the way it presents e-books--but the animations just slow the transition form one page to the next--I know I'm not reading a print book, so for me to enjoy a book it's not necessary to make it look like I'm turning virtual pages; I'd rather they resolve issues with formatting, which makes it look less like an actual print book and detracts from the content.