On exhibiton from September 26, 1997 to January 4, 1998, Mathew Brady's Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery displays the work of Brady, not his well known photo documentation of the Civil War, but rather covers the most productive years of his career, starting with his emergence in 1844 as a daguerreotypist in New York.
What stood out to me design wise, was that the brochure for the exhibition was styled as a gazette or newspaper from the mid-19th century which lended a bit of whimsy and helped to transport exhibition visitors to the time period.
Related Resources
- Mathew Brady materials at the Smithsonian Institution
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