| Names: | | | Dates: | 1819 - 1902 | | Born: | US, CT | | Died: | US, NY | | Active: | US |
American photographer remembered for his images of the American Civil War. Prior to these events he took a remarkable Daguerreotype of a fire at the Oswego Mills in New York (5 July 1853) - this image, now housed at George Eastman House, is one of the first of a catastrophe actually taking place.
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Syracuse, NY, US
Oswego, NY, US
Charleston, SC, US
Chicago, IL, US
[5-8] *263 King St., Charleston; No. 376 Van Buren St., Chicago; long & distinguished career; photog. for Anthony Co. as well as his own
label; B. 19; began in Oswego 47; 57 perfected a
method of using photog. to make woodcuts,
awarded prize at the American Institute; 67,
joined Mathew Brady's Washington, DC gallery;
official photog. for Military Division of
Mississippi; in 70's, worked in Chicago and SC.
Returned to NY state to help George Eastman get
started in business. Issued many fine series
such as "Great Fire in Chicago, Oct. 9, 1871",
st. scy. on CMs, pub. by Lovejoy & Foster, 309
W. Randolph St., Chicago, IL; "Photographic
History, The War of the Union" pub. by E & H.T.
Anthony, views include the siege in Atlanta;
"South Carolina Views", on RMs; "Barnard's
Specialties" on RMs. D. Feb. 4
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) |
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George Barnard
American, 1819-1902
George Barnard was born in New York in 1819. He worked as a news photographer and as Mathew Brady's assistant in New York City prior to the Civil War. In 1862 he became the official photographer for the army of General Sherman. Due to the complex collodion wet-plate process of the time though, Barnard could not photograph the actual battles, so instead he took photographs of the devastation after the combat and of other aspects of the war such as famous battle sites, bridges and railroads. Barnard also documented General Sherman's famous "March to the Sea", which produced a series of prints 10 x 14, sixty-one of which were published in Plates from Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign in 1866. Barnard also created several images of the war with James F. Gibson which were later published in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Today Barnard's images are an important part of American history.
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