Famous Photographer

Mathew Brady is a famous photographer from the civil war. He was significant because he took pictures of fallen soldiers when very few photographers did so at that time. This changed how people looked at war because they could now see the fields covered with the lifeless bodies of loved ones. It brought the destructive act of war into the thoughts and minds of everyone waiting at home. The civil war was the most photographed war but it is also because of Brady that there is very little coverage of war today. It is too difficult for people to see with their own eyes the hundreds of fallen soldiers who gave up their lives for our country.