[Private James P. Bonnet and Unidentified Members of the 22nd New York State Militia in their Tent Camp, Near Harper's Ferry, Virginia]
1862
![[Private James P. Bonnet and Unidentified Members of the 22nd New York State Militia in their Tent Camp, Near Harper's Ferry, Virginia] by Mathew B. Brady](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/private-james-p-bonnet-and-unidentified-members-268136.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.331
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1862, amid the tumult of the American Civil War pioneering photographer Mathew B. Brady captured a rare, intimate moment with *Private James P. Bonnet and Unidentified of the 22nd New York State Militia in Tent Camp, Near Harper Ferry, Virginia*. Thisen silver print from a negative shows the soldiers lounging in their canvas tent, a of everyday life on the lines. Brady, famed his ambitious project to document the war through photography, brought the conflict's human side into sharp focus, far beyond battlefield heroics. Harper's Ferry, a strategic railroad hub in Virginia (now West Virgini...
About the Artist
Mathew B. Brady · 1823–1896
Mathew B. Brady (c. 1823–1896) was an American photographer who became the most famous photographer of the Civil War era and one of the founding figures of American photographic history. Born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, he learned the daguerreotype process from Samuel F.B. Morse and William Page and opened his first portrait studio in New York City in 1844. Brady quick...