![]() This may have been due to his eyesight, which had begun deteriorating several years earlier. He employed more than a score of men, including Alexander Gardner and George Barnard, to accomplish this feat and his photographers capture over 10,000 images during the course of the war.īrady himself spent most of his time in Washington organizing his assistants and the photographs they submitted, rarely visiting the battlefields himself. Brady agreed and set out to capture the war in photographs. ![]() Lincoln agreed to Brady's request with the provision that he fund the effort himself. When the Civil War broke out Brady became enraptured with the idea of documenting the war and requested permission to do so from Abraham Lincoln. and throughout the 1850s experimented with different styles of photography. In 1849 Brady moved his studio to Washington, D.C. In 1844 Brady opened his own photography studio and quickly made a name for himself by taking photographs of famous Americans and exhibiting them. ![]() After meeting Louis Jacques Daguerre, the inventor of the daguerreotype, Morse opened a studio in New York City at which he also offered classes and Brady was one of his first students. ![]() ![]() Brady first became interested in photography in 1839 after meeting Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. ![]()
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