Short documentary film on Brady can be found here ...
This picture below is the wagon containing Bradys camera and mobile dark room, with glass negatives and all the required chemicals to develop the images..
Its hard to imagine how difficult it must have been and by the look of those wheels suspension was at a minimal.. they must have had a lot of failures and breakages.
They used the 'old wet plate' process and they took the darkroom to the battlefield.
I viewed and listened to the video about Matthew Brady and it was very interesting to see the images.
Matthew was the first to use the magic eye as apposed to wooden box cameras, he followed armies during the Civil war of America. It recorded tragedy that neither the imagination or the work of a painter could reproduce.
Brady was a young farm boy who liked photography but also collected images of others, he had a great interest.
Matthew Brady photographed many of the presidents, he made their faces familiar. Slavery threatened national unity and President Abraham Lincoln was in charge of a divided nation. Lincoln called for
armies and weapons for this the bloodiest of wars.
Brady took his contraptions to the camps and took photos. He was the first to ever take a picture of an army camp. which was on a glass negative.
The war began to carry to inland waters and more effective gun boats were required, they needed more men to join the navy. The war also meant uprooting people causing many refugees. Flesh wounds lead to gangrene and amputations as there was a lack of medical provisions. 483,000 lives were ended.
The war ended when Lees surrendered - then there was peace.
Two years later Lincoln was assassinated, shot dead.
Even though Brady took thousands of wonderful images he ended up penniless.
IMAGES
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mathew+brady+photos&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&hl=en&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ei=kwzmVK6_K8vvaIG9gfgC&ved=0CBQQsAQ&tbm=isch
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