City Point, Virginia
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.15
Tags
Art Historical Context
"City Point, Virginia" is a striking albumen silver print from glass negative, captured between 1861 and 1865 by Andrew Joseph Russell association with the renowned photographer Mathew B. Brady. This photograph now housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Photographs Department thanks to the Harris Brisbane Dick of 1933, offers a vivid glimpse into the American Civil War era. Albumen prints, popular in the mid-19th century, egg whites to bind light-sensitive silver salts to paper, producing rich tonal contrasts and fine details that brought distant scenes to life for viewers far from the front ...
About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell|Mathew B. Brady · 1830–1902
Andrew Joseph Russell (1829–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose work captured the raw drama of the Civil War and the monumental engineering of the transcontinental railroad. Born on March 20, 1829, in Walpole, New Hampshire, to Joseph Russell and Harriet Robinson, he grew up in Nunda, New York, where he developed an early passion for painting, creating portraits, landscapes, and eve...