Pass in the Raccoon Range, Whiteside No. 1
Medium
Albumen print, plate 6 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 25.5 × 35.9 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.); Album page: 41 × 50.8 cm (16 3/16 × 20 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
32065
Art Historical Context
Step into the rugged heart of the American Civil War with *Pass in the Racco Range, Whiteside No 1*, a striking 1864 albumen print by George N Barnard. This image, plate 6 from Barnard's seminal 1866 album *Photographic Views the Sherman Campaign*, captures dramatic narrow pass in Georgia's Raccoon Mountain range—a key geographical feature during Union General William T. Sherman's push toward Atlanta. Barnard's lens frames the steep, shadowed cliffs and winding road, evoking the perilous terrain that challenged advancing troops. As an official photographer for Sherman's army, Barnard document...
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 ...