On May 23, the National Portrait Gallery will display “Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints from Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives.” The museum’s vast collection of Civil War-era portrait ...

On cowboy portraits: I never really liked taking portraits when I started photography. I thought those were just posed, stated, easy-to-do, non-documentary, non-photojournalism works.

Modern portraits evoke the solemnity of 1863. July 4, 2013. ... He photographed reenactors in the style of portrait photography from the Civil War era, ...