George Barnard
GEORGE BARNARD
“Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA. No. 2”,
1864, albumen print, 1866, 10 x 14.
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GEORGE BARNARD
“The ‘Hell Hole’ New Hope Church, GA.”, 1866, albumen print, 1866, 10" x 14". |
GEORGE BARNARD
“Exterior View of Fort Sumpter”, 1866, albumen print, 1866, 10" x 14". |
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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