Description
It has been the privilege of a lifetime to have walked the battlefields of the American Civil War, where Timothy O'Sullivan walked, and where he exposed the photographic plates that render him as a photographer of high distinction.
His photographs now populate a civil war media space, mostly without due credit: The name Timothy O'Sullivan is now largely familiar only to enthusiasts and historians.
I hope that this book will span some of this distance, and carry him further forward in public understanding.
If so, it will have served its purpose.
The Walt Whitman valediction as accorded to Alexander Gardner, applies, equally, to Timothy O'Sullivan - "saw farther than his camera".
This book is dedicated to a photographer who does not deserve to be such a fragile whisper on the sorrow of the American Civil War.
About the Author
Keith Steiner is a writer on historic photography and the photography of the American Civil War. He was trained in Fine Art and is also the great nephew of eminent Swiss photographer Albert Steiner. Keith has been a consultant and contributor to the STV programme 'Peoples' History' on the Scottish photographer of the American Civil War, Alexander Gardner. He lives in Scotland.
Book Information
ISBN 9781803136608
Author Keith Steiner
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint Matador
Publisher Troubador Publishing
