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Barnard was born into a farming family in Coventry, Connecticut on December 23, 1819 |
Barnard was born into a farming family in Coventry, Connecticut on December 23, 1819. His father died in 1826 and he grew up among relatives in a nearby town, apprenticing at various jobs in the family owmed businesses. He married in 1843 and moved to [[Oswego, New York]], where he briefly got into the hotel business before turning to photography.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=2487&|title=George N. Barnard at Historic Camera - History Librarium|website=historiccamera.com}}</ref><ref name=encyc/><ref name="getty.edu"/> |
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Revision as of 20:10, 27 November 2018
George Norman Barnard was an American photographer most well known for his photographs from the American Civil War era. Barnard was born in December 23, 1819[1] in Coventry, Connecticut[2] and died Feb 4, 1902 in Syracuse, New York. He is often noted as G. N. Barnard.
Early life
Barnard was born into a farming family in Coventry, Connecticut on December 23, 1819. His father died in 1826 and he grew up among relatives in a nearby town, apprenticing at various jobs in the family owmed businesses. He married in 1843 and moved to Oswego, New York, where he briefly got into the hotel business before turning to photography.[3][1][2]
Career
Starting his business in New York State in 1843, Barnard was one of the first to use daguerreotype, the first commercially available form of photography, in the United States.[2][4]
An 1853 a fire destroyed the grain elevators in Oswego, New York, an event Barnard photographed. Historians consider these some of the first "news" photographs. Barnard also photographed Lincoln's 1861 inauguration.[1]
Barnard is best known for American Civil War photos. He was the official army photographer for the Military Division of the Mississippi, which mostly involved photographing and documenting fortifications, bridges, and documents.[1]
His 1866 book, Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign showed the devastation of the war.[1] The book includes 61 albumen prints featuring Nashville, the Chattanooga Valley, Atlanta, and Savannah. He took the photos while operating under General Sherman's orders. The book also includes a studio portrait of Sherman and his generals.[5]
After the war, Barnard ran photography studios in Ohio, Charleston, South Carolina and Chicago. His Chicago studio burned down in the 1871 city fire.[5] In Rochester, New York, he briefly worked with George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company.[2]
Collections
Barnard's work is included in the American Memory collection, Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress, 1861-1865.[5] The J. Paul Getty Museum holds his work[2] as does MoMA.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "George N. Barnard in Georgia". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- ^ a b c d e "George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
- ^ "George N. Barnard at Historic Camera - History Librarium". historiccamera.com.
- ^ "George N. Barnard - American photographer".
- ^ a b c "George N. Barnard - Selected Photographers and Examples of Their Work - Articles and Essays - Panoramic Photographs - Digital Collections - Library of Congress".
- ^ https://www.moma.org/artists/336
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