[Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry], 1856–58, Salted paper print from glass negative, Image : 33.1 x 28.4cm (13 1/16 x 11 3/16in.), Photographs, Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York), Mathew Brady was a skilled daguerreotypist, having learned the technical aspects of the process from the American pioneers of the medium, Samuel Morse and John Draper. Other qualities, however, set him apart from competing daguerreotypists who operated in New York in 1844, the year that Brady opened his first studio: artistry in his sense of lighting and in the way he posed his sitters; a personal manner that set his clientele at ease in sumptuously appointed quarters; and a frankly elitist conception of both the business and the social mission of this most democratic medium
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Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, 1856–58, Salted paper print, glass negative, Image, 33.1 x 28.4cm, 13 1/16 11 3/16in, Photographs, Mathew B. Brady, American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896, New York, skilled daguerreotypist, having learned, technical aspects, process, American pioneers, medium, Samuel Morse, John Draper, qualities, set, apart, competing daguerreotypists, operated, 1844, year, Brady opened, first studio, artistry, sense, lighting, way, posed, sitters, personal manner, clientele, ease, sumptuously appointed, quarters, frankly elitist, conception, business, social mission, democratic medium
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