When Abraham Lincoln campaigned for president in 1860, he was dismissed as an odd-looking country bumpkin. ONE OF HIS PORTRAITS INTRODUCED HONEST ABE TO THE COUNTRY. The one that got away was William Henry Harrison-he died only a month after his inauguration in 1841. HE PHOTOGRAPHED EVERY PRESIDENT FROM JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TO WILLIAM MCKINLEY. "He has merited the eminence he has acquired for, from the time he first began to devote himself to it, he has adhered to his early purpose with the firmest resolution, and the most unyielding tenacity.” Later that year, at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, Brady was awarded one of three gold medals for his daguerreotypes. “We are not aware that any man has devoted himself to with so much earnestness, or expended upon its development so much time and expense," the profile opined. The volume, and a feature profile in the inaugural 1851 issue of the Photographic Art-Journal that described Brady as the “fountain-head” of a new artistic movement, made him a celebrity even outside of America. In 1850, Brady published The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, a collection of lithographs based on his daguerreotypes of a dozen famous Americans (he had intended to do 24, but due to costs, that never happened). His rapidly-expanding operation forced him to open a branch of his studio at 625 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in 1849, and then move his New York studio uptown to 785 Broadway in 1860. HE SET UP SHOP IN NEW YORK AND BECAME THE GO-TO PHOTOGRAPHER.īrady eventually took what he learned from Morse and opened a daguerreotype portrait studio at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street in New York in 1844, earning the nickname “Brady of Broadway.” His renown grew due to a mix of his knack for enticing celebrities to sit for his camera-James Knox Polk and a young Henry James (with his father, Henry James Sr.) both sat for him-as well as a flair for the dramatic: In 1856, he placed an ad in the New York Daily Tribune urging readers to sit for a portrait that warned, “You cannot tell how soon it may be too late.” Morse, who had learned the early photographic method of creating Daguerreotypes from Parisian inventor Louis Daguerre in 1839, brought the method back to the United States and opened a studio in 1840. Stewart department store and began manufacturing leather (and sometimes paper) cases for local photographers, including Samuel F.B. But that potential career was derailed when he got work as a clerk in the A.T. When he was 16 or 17, Brady followed artist William Page to New York City after Page had given him some drawing lessons. HE TOOK PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES FROM THE INVENTOR OF MORSE CODE. Brady had no children, and though he is believed to have married a woman named Julia Handy in 1851, there is no official record of the marriage.
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