Word: psychograph
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Matthew B. Brady, the distinguished photographer of the Civil War period, is the subject of a curious psychograph by the prolific Charles Flato. More arresting than the psychograph itself is a series of admirable, prints from Brady's portfolio; one of them, a study of General Burnside standing by his camp tent, gives a convincing argument for Daguerre's metallic art as an instrument of high irony. Brady is far less self conscious as an artist than the usual photographic contributors to this magazine, and the clearness of his tones, achieved without the sacrifice of beauty, is surprising...