Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription Rock, New Mexico, No 3. (1873) by Timothy H. O'SullivanThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
'Apprenticed in the Washington, D.C., portrait studio of Mathew Brady and matured and tested under the most trying conditions as a field photographer during the Civil War, Timothy O'Sullivan was perfectly suited to participate in the postwar government-sponsored expeditions in the American West, including the 1871 and 1873 seasons of George Wheeler's survey of territory west of the 100th meridian.'
[Slaves, J. J. Smith's Plantation, near Beaufort, South Carolina] (1862) by Timothy H. O'SullivanThe J. Paul Getty Museum
'Timothy O'Sullivan made this view of more than a hundred individuals standing in front of their former quarters, their meager belongings packed in burlap bundles as they begin their lives of freedom.'
Slaves, J. J. Smith's Plantation, South Carolina (1862)The J. Paul Getty Museum
'Timothy O'Sullivan made this view of more than a hundred individuals standing in front of their former quarters, their meager belongings packed in burlap bundles as they begin their lives of freedom.'
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1863) by Timothy H. O'SullivanGeorge Eastman Museum
'That June, Gardner loaned him as an experienced field photographer to a visiting NY photographer. In July, he travelled with Brady and Alfred Waud, a magazine illustrator, to Bull Run to photograph the battle.'
Field where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg (July 1863) by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Alexander GardnerThe J. Paul Getty Museum
'O'Sullivan made the photograph while working for Gardner, who printed the image and included it in his Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War.'
Desert Sand Hills near Sink of Carson, Nevada (1867)The J. Paul Getty Museum
'Timothy O'Sullivan's darkroom wagon, pulled by four mules, entered the frame at the right side of the photograph, reached the center of the image, and abruptly U-turned, heading back out of the frame.'
[Desert Sand Hills near Sink of Carson, Nevada] (1867) by Timothy H. O'SullivanThe J. Paul Getty Museum
'Timothy O'Sullivan's darkroom wagon, pulled by four mules, entered the frame at the right side of the photograph, reached the center of the image, and abruptly U-turned, heading back out of the frame.'
Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, New Mexico (1873)The J. Paul Getty Museum
'In 1873 Timothy O'Sullivan led a splinter group from Lieutenant George Wheeler's geological expedition to Zuni Pueblo in northeast Arizona and to the pre-Columbian cliff dwellings known as the White House Ruins at Cañon de Chelle, mostly dating from the eleventh century.'
Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M. (Territory) (1873) by Timothy H. O'SullivanThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
'Timothy O'Sullivan apprenticed in the Washington, D.C., portrait studio of Mathew Brady, and he matured and was tested under the most trying conditions as a field photographer during the Civil War.'
Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, In a Niche Fifty Feet Above Present Cañon Bed (1873) by Timothy H. O'SullivanThe J. Paul Getty Museum
'In 1873 Timothy O'Sullivan led a splinter group from Lieutenant George Wheeler's geological expedition to Zuni Pueblo in northeast Arizona and to the pre-Columbian cliff dwellings known as the White House Ruins at Cañon de Chelle, mostly dating from the eleventh century. O'Sullivan was one of the first people to photograph the structures nestled in the canyon wall.'
