Word: mathews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conditions of the poor but none so stark or so widely seen. Riis' unflinching pictures of tenement life mark a turning point between the Victorian idea that poverty was an evil to be condemned and the reformer's conviction that it was a condition to be remedied. Riis, like Mathew Brady, had a team of photographers (and like Brady, took credit for their work). Shooting in gloomy alleys and sunless rooming houses, he and his colleagues became pioneers of flash-lit photography -- a delicate undertaking in those days when the newly invented magnesium flash powder had to be poured into...
...American Civil War forced the curtain higher. When the fighting began in 1861, Mathew Brady was the country's best-known photographer, an early specimen of the celebrity portraitist and a frank businessman whose New York City studio was located not far from P.T. Barnum's museum. Brady kept a second studio in Washington, and when the First Battle of Bull Run broke out just 25 miles from the capital, he rushed toward the lines with two vanloads of equipment. Amid the scramble of the Union retreat, all the plates from that first day's work were lost...
News Editor For This Issue: Ross G. Forman '90 Night Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Ross G. Forman '91 Susan B. Glasser '90 Mathew M. Hoffman '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Madhavi Sunder '92 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Features Editor: Spencer H. Hsu '90 Sports Editors: Mike R. Grunwald '92 Mike D. Stankiewicz '91 Photo Editors: Govin R. Villareal '90 Rebekah C. Seaton '91 Copy Editor: Susan E. Owen...
...everyone is at the same level of maturity. A lot of people were just shocked by it," said Mather resident Mathew J. DeGreef...
...Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures. It would be possible to assemble another equally large exhibition from the prominent names left out -- Mathew Brady, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams and Richard Avedon, to name a few -- but the shortcomings of the show are paltry compared with its pleasures...