Timothy O'Sullivan was born 1840 in New York City. He worked under Mathew Brady at his Fulton Street gallery in NYC. Later on, he moved with Brady to photograph the Civil War. He was renowned for catching jarring images of the war, and they where published in his Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. After his stint in the war, he joined Clarence Kings geological survey of the fortieth parallel. He continued this trend of landscape photography, and in 1871, 1873, and 1874, he set out with a series of surveys of the southwest United States. He was an influential photographer of the western frontier, which he explored. O'Sullivan died January 14, 1882.
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| The King Survey Photographs |
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| "The Pyramid and Domes" Pyramid Lake, Nevada |
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| Photo taken 1871from Expedition Camp 8, looking upstream. |
Sources:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/434522/Timothy-OSullivan
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=3600
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