matthew brady
...raphic documentation of the American Civil War. Brady was almost killed at Bull Run, VA. He got lost for three days and eventually wound up in Washington D.C., nearly dead from starvation. Mathew B. Brady lived the last few months of his life in a rooming house, all alone, sick, and destitute. He was left penniless and unappreciated even though he devoted his whole life to preserving and perpetuating the history of his country. Towards the end of Brady's life he once said about the photographs he took: "No one will ever know what they cost me; some of them almost cost me my life." At five o'clock on January 15, 1896, Mathew B. Brady died; alone and forgotten. His beautiful photographs, and even greater, his love for life and his country will live forever in the hearts and minds of millions of people all over the world for all times to come. His work has helped everyone from historians to the military. All wars before the civil war are not as remembered because there are no photographs to look at. The first photograph below shows union soldiers standing around a cannon. Mathew B. Brady used the space adequately. He used very good depth of field. Everything in the front is in focus while everything behind the people is a bit blurry which focuses the eye to the subject. The second photograph shows a picture of a civil war town taken upon a building. It shows how a photograph will show up with a large aperture. It also shows great depth of field and lens use. The whole picture is in focus and e...