South Bank of the Chattahoochie, Ga.
Medium
Albumen print, plate 33 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 24.9 × 36.1 cm (9 13/16 × 14 1/4 in.); Album page: 41 × 50.9 cm (16 3/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145471
Art Historical Context
George N. Barnard's *South Bank of the Chattahoochee, Ga.* (1866) captures a pivotal landscape from the American Civil War Atlanta Campaign. As plate 33 in Barnard's seminal album *Photographic Views the Sherman Campaign*, this depicts the southern bank of the Chattaochee River in Georgia, a strategic crossing point for Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's army en route to Atlanta in 4. Barnard, a photographer who documented the war's aftermath in the South, used his lens to record scarred terrains that bore witness to intense military maneuvers, offering viewers a stark, unvarnished glimp...
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 ...