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PHOTOGRAPHS
Barnard, George N.
U.S. (1819 - 1902)
U.S. Gunboat Stones River
1862 - 1863
Albumen print
7 1/2 x 9 15/16 in. (19 x 25.3 cm) image and sheet size; 14 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (37.5 x 45.1 cm) mount board size
Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection
FA 2005.143

George Barnard worked for the Mathew Brady Studio, and is best known for his documentation of the Civil War. From 1861-63, Barnard worked with other photographers under Brady’s auspices to create a photographic record of the war. U.S. Gunboat, Stone River, was taken during this time. When Brady insisted on taking complete credit for these images, Barnard, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O’Sullivan all left his employ in 1863.

In 1864 George Barnard became the official photographer for the United States Army, Division of the Mississippi, under General William Tecumseh Sherman. He accompanied Sherman on his Atlanta campaign and documented the infamous “march to the sea.” Those images were published in 1866 as an album of 61 photographs entitled Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign. After the war, Barnard continued working as a portrait photographer, and briefly collaborated with George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company. Barnard was one of the first photographers to open a daguerreotype studio in the U.S. In 1854 he began using the collodion process, a negative/positive process that allowed for multiple prints, unlike the daguerreotype, which is always unique. -- Label copy for 150 Works of Art, October 1, 2005 to February 26, 2006.

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