Mathew Brady’s camera, it was claimed, made all who sat before it famous. In 'Shooting Celebrities,' a limited audience seated in the round in Brady’s celebrity-makers studio meet a cast of iconic Americans. Memorialized under the focus of Brady’s lens, they guide the audience through multiple perspectives of the American self. But it is the principal visitor, Mary Lincoln, who combats expectation and grief while seeking to achieve, at long last, an honest portrait of her true self, and thus rewriting American history, which has branded her the overdressed crazy widow of America’s Greatest President.
