Coalville, Weber Valley, Utah
Andrew Joseph Russell
1868/69
Medium
Albumen print, pl. XVIII from the album "Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery" (1870)
Dimensions
15.3 × 20.4 cm (image/paper); 23.2 × 30.3 (album page)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236172
About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell · 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...