Timothy H. O'Sullivan: 10 works

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'

'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.'