Comments on: Phun with phakes…

By: acline

acline — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:16:30 +0000

Rochester Institute of Technology. I have an AAS in Photography.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:14:59 +0000

As a long time avid history reader, I am familiar with your Brady facts – he was the prototype for celebrity photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Franciso Scavullo, Andy Warhol, David Bailey and Richard Avedon. Speaking of Bull Run (weren’t we?) one of the fascinating things about the first Bull Run was that Washingtonians pranced out to the battlefield in their carriages with picnic baskets to observe the carnage. “Some say” we’re calloused toward violence, but somehow, I can’t see Rummy setting out his picnic basket at the outskirts of Baghdad. One more thing,I hate to expose my ignorance (yeah, right!) but what is RIT?

By: acline

acline — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:12:17 +0000

I did a lot of research on Brady as an undergraduate at RIT. Fascinating stuff. He’s actually in many of the photographs! And he insisted on putting his own name on the pictures made by those who worked for him. While Brady was active throughout the war, he took far fewer chances on the battlefield following the first battle of Bull Run, in which he became lost trying to flee the advancing Confederates.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:06:15 +0000

I stopped thinking of photographs as “framed moments of reality” about 20 years ago when I discovered that some of the famous Brady Civil War battlefield photos had been staged.