Brady's’s work is defined by its 19th century sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

General George Armstrong Custer
Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries American, 20th century

Josephine Baker
Robert Brady (American, 1928–1986; permanent resident of Mexico, from 1961) Cuernavaca, Mexico

Yellow Flowers for Murray Hopkins
Carolyn Brady American, 1937-2005

Julia Jackson
Julia Margaret Cameron English, 1815–1879

Irving Penn: In A Cracked Mirror (Self-Portrait) (A), New York
Irving Penn American, 1917–2009

Lieutenant General Scott, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army and Staff
Mathew B. Brady American, 1823–1896

Shoshone Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho
Brady Stewart American, died 1965

Black and Tanned Your Whipped Wind of Change Howled Low Blowing Itself - Ha - Smack into the Middle of Duke Ellington's Orchestra Billie Heard It Too & Cried Strange Fruit Tears
Carrie Mae Weems American, born 1953

Naomi Campbell, New York
Irving Penn American, 1917–2009

U.N. Session: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson
Inge Morath American, born Austria, 1923–2002

Self-Portrait
Walter Shirlaw (American, 1838–1909)

Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J.
Diane Arbus American, 1923–1971

Ballet Society, New York
Irving Penn American, 1917–2009

Frederick Douglass
Samuel J. Miller American, 1822–1888

Untitled
Cindy Sherman American, born 1954

Untitled (Experiment 597)
Anonymous Fermilab Photographer

Monte Carlo Sporting Club
James Van Der Zee American, 1886–1983

Double Elvis
Vik Muniz Brazilian, born 1961

Heather Brown McCann, Mimi Brown, Bebe Brown Nixon, Laurie Brown, New Canaan, Conn.
Nicholas Nixon American, born 1947

Shallow Basketry Bowl with Four Ladder-like Designs Radiating from Center
Basketmaker unknown (Tohono O'odham Nation) Arizona