George N Barnard

(b CT, 23 Dec 1819; d Cedarville, NY, 4 Feb 1902). American photographer. He began to take photographs c. 1842 and opened a daguerreotype studio in Oswego, NY, in 1843. His two views of a fire at Ames Mills, Burning Mills at Oswego, NY, [5 July] 1853 (Rochester, NY, Int. Mus. Phot.), are remarkable examples of early daguerreotype reportage. In the same year he was secretary of the New York State Daguerrean Association. After purchasing Clark's Gallery, Syracuse, in 1854, he began to produce ambrotypes; in the latter half of the decade he learnt the collodion process.

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Barnard, George (1819-1902), American photographer, known for his Civil War images. After establishing a daguerreotype studio in Oswego, New York (1846), Barnard moved to Syracuse (1853), where he took up the wet-plate process. In 1859 he joined Edward Anthony's New York business to take stereoscopic pictures. One of a group of war photographers organized by Mathew Brady, he accompanied Sherman's invasion of Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864-5; 61 albumen prints were published in 1866 as Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign (repr. 1977). After the war he ran studios in a series of locations and worked briefly with George Eastman.

— Robert Pols