Timothy H. O’Sullivan

(Timothy H. O’Sullivan: Incidents of the War: A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863)

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Timothy H. O’Sullivan (U.S., b. 1840–1882)

Incidents of the War: A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863. 1863

Albumen print

6 3/4 x 8 13/16 in. image size

Henry Art Gallery, Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and The Boeing Company, 97.125

With Incidents of the War: A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863, photographers Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner moved beyond the then-typical images of armies posed at rest to capture the grim reality of a battlefield. Early in the war O’Sullivan and Gardner worked as field photographers under Matthew Brady and are credited with having taken a sizeable percentage of the Civil War photographs attributed to Brady’s studio. This image of the Union dead at Gettysburg was made after they left Brady’s employ.

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