Timothy O'Sullivan

Timothy O'Sullivan was born in 1840 in New York City and died in Staten Island of tuberculosis at age 42 on January 14, 1882. As a teenager O'Sullivan was employed by Matthew Brady, but was commissioned into the Union army when the Civil War began. Joining with Alexander Gardner's studion he had his fourty-four civial photographs published in, Gardners photographic sketchbook of the war, which was the first civil war photograph collection. His most famous photograph is "Harvest of Death" and it depicts fallen soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg. From 1867 to 1869 he was an official photographer for United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. He was to photograph the west to help attract settlers. O'Sullivan's landscape photographers were a new concept that involved taking pictures of untamedand un-industrialized land without the use of landscaping painting conventions. In 1870 he joined a team that surveyed the Panama canal. O'Sullivan spent the last years of his life living in Washington D.C working for the U.S Geological Survey and the Treasury Department.

Elements:

• Line- made by the horizon
• Value
• Space- depth of the shot
• Rule of Thirds- land houses in foreground sky and mountains in background