TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN photographic wagon Civil War

TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN photographic wagon Civil War
TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN View of the Petersburg Gas Works, May 1865 Albumen Print 7x9" ASG# THO/1221 mounted on decorative Incidents of War album page from Gardner's Sketchbook of the War Vol. II Pl. 81 with accompanying Title page.

Timothy O'Sullivan placed his photo-wagon in the right in this very modern composition of the surviving mass of this building that had been heavily shelled.

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882) began his photography career as an apprentice in Matthew Brady's Fulton Street gallery in New York City and then moved on to the Washington, D.C., branch managed by Alexander Gardner. In 1861, at the age of twenty-one, O'Sullivan joined Brady's team of Civil War photographers. When Gardner left Brady, O'Sullivan went with him, working for Gardner until the end of the war. Several of his images were included in Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War. O'Sullivan built his reputation on images that conveyed the destructive power of modern warfare. He was hired to photograph the American West by Clarence King, for the King Survey in 1867-1869, and by Lt. George Wheeler, for the Wheeler Survey in the 1871, 1873-1874. His photographs of western scenes are considered modern landscapes distinguished by bold, spare compositions and vast empty spaces.

Condition: Excellent. Rich print, 10 on a scale of 10, minor wear