George N. Barnard

Biography

George N. Barnard began practicing photography in the 1840s, traveling through the North and South to capture portraits and landscapes with a meticulous eye for detail and soon became known for mastering the complex wet-plate process.

During the Civil War he documented major campaigns and, after doing so, published volumes of images that preserved the era's turmoil and recovery, leaving a visual record that endures alongside his resting place at Gilbert Cemetery.