ABSTRACT
The technological advances of photography in the nineteenth century from early single-image daguerreotypes to the multiple reproduction collodion process allowed Mathew Brady and other Civil War photographers to document the war and reproduce their vivid images for the public. Brady and his men became the world's first true photojournalists, providing graphic images of the bloody reality of war to the public and the press. Despite the enormous influence of Brady's war photographs, history does not name Brady as the father of photojournalism. Roger Fenton, who photographed the Crimean War, holds that honor. Unlike Brady, Fenton photographed only images that would boost morale. Despite this, his pictures were dramatic, real depictions of camp life. Being already famous before the Civil War, Brady seized the opportunities of war to become even more famous. Brady's future gallery manager. Gardner, then editor of the Sentinel in Glasgow, Scotland, gave a positive review of Fenton's photographs on display at the Water Colour Society in London.
