Photography exhibits run concurrently at Frist Center Sep 19, 2008
This exhibition features both types of approaches as exemplified by such artists as Mathew Brady, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and Nan Goldin. A selection of early motion pictures demonstrates the achievements of a medium that developed directly out of photography and has become one of the most popular art forms of our times. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Read into 'This Republic of Suffering' Jan 24, 2008
They found themselves transfixed by the paradoxically lifelike renderings of the slain of Antietam that Mathew Brady exhibited in his studio on Broadway ... 103 31; and Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (New York: Hill & Wang, 1989). (USA Today -- Life)
Ken Burns' own private War Sep 23, 2007
This is not a collection of letters read by actors as a camera zooms in on a Mathew Brady portrait photo. It is on-camera, eyewitness testimony accompanied by unflinching, sometimes frightening, sometimes never-before-seen footage of actual combat. (Houston Chronicle)
More of this story Jan 27, 2007
While Mathew Brady was the most famous of the photographers to cover the war, cameras at the time could not capture action well. He trained his lens instead on camp life and the soldiers activities before and after battles. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Death's strange spell Jan 3, 2007
By Susan Moeller, SUSAN MOELLER is the director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda at the University of Maryland and the author of "Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Comb January 3, 2007 THE OFFICIAL VIDEO that aired on Iraqi state television of Saddam Hussein's execution and the surreptitiously taken cellphone images of the hanging have once again caused mainstream American media to publicly muse over whether their audiences can tolerate graphic... (Los Angeles Times)
