Chattanooga Valley from Lookout Mountain
1864/66
Medium
Albumen print, plate 13 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 25.6 × 35.7 cm (10 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Album page: 40.9 × 51 cm (16 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145433
Art Historical Context
Behold the sweeping vista of *Chattanooga Valley fromout Mountain*, an evocative albumen print captured by N. Barnard between 1864 and 1866. As plate 13 from Barnard's seminal album *Photographic Views the Sherman Campaign* (6), this image offers a bird's-eye perspective from the famed summit, where Union forces triumphed during the 1863 Battles for Chattanooga—a pivotal moment in the Civil War that secured control of the region's vital rail hub. Barnard, a pioneering photographer and official documentarian for General William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea, masterfully em...
About the Artist
George N. Barnard · 1819–present
George N. Barnard (1819–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose six-decade career spanned the dawn of the medium, from daguerreotypes to Civil War documentation. Born into a farming family in Coventry, Connecticut, on December 23, 1819, he lost his father at age seven and apprenticed in family businesses before marrying in 1843 and relocating to Oswego, New York. There, he launched one ...