Ransoming Mathew Brady
John Ransom Phillips, Alan Trachtenberg
ISBN 10: 1555953263 ISBN 13: 9781555953263
Published by Hudson Hills Pr, 2010
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In a series of oils, and watercolors John Ransom Philips portrays the complexity of nineteenth-century photographer Mathew Brady, whose work includes the iconic photographs of Abraham Lincoln and the many Civil War battlefield scenes.
About the Author: John Ransom Phillips is an artist and author whose work has been exhibited internationally at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art in Chicago; Museo de Arte Moderne in Buenos Aires; the Fundacao de Arte e Cultural de Ubatuba in Sao Paolo, and Zamalek Gallery, Cairo. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has been a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Alan Trachtenberg is The Neil Gray, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University, and the author of 'Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans'(1989).
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Title: Ransoming Mathew Brady
Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good