DAC Collection Artist Information
George N. Barnard
American photographer
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Born in Coventry, Connecticut in 1819, Barnard was active from 1851 as a daguerreotypist in Oswego, New York, Syracuse, New York, and Charleston, South Carolina. He died in Cedarvale, New York in 1902. Barnard is best known for his album of 61 albumen prints in Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (1866), documenting the battlefields after Sherman's march through the South.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500115186.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to George N. Barnard:
| George N. Barnard | Allatoona from the Etawah, 1864 | Albumen print with clouds from a sandwiched negative |
| George N. Barnard | Columbia [South Carolina] from the Capitol, 1864 | Albumen print with clouds from a sandwiched negative |
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