{"id":2959,"date":"2013-08-07T00:31:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2013-08-07T00:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:36:05","slug":"timothy-osullivan-19th-century-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/timothy-osullivan-19th-century-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy O&#8217;Sullivan, 19th century photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2960\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2149899\/The-American-West-youve-seen-Amazing-19th-century-pictures-landscape-chartered-time.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2960\" alt=\"Timothy O'Sullivan\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/article-2149899-134B3B7D000005DC.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy O&#8217;Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kitchener, August 4, 2013.<\/strong> My oldest daughter, Suzy, reminded me today about this famous Irish-American wet-plate photographer.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">I was first introduced to O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s beautiful photographs decades ago in the 1970s series of Time-Life books on Photography.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan practiced his art at a time when the darkroom had to accompany the photographer into the field so plates could be sensitized, exposed, and developed before the emulsion dried. This was a herculean task that damaged the wooden cameras of the day as the wet emulsion dripped down across the wooden camera backs.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan worked in the 1860s and 70s beginning with the American civil war. The images shown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2149899\/The-American-West-youve-seen-Amazing-19th-century-pictures-landscape-chartered-time.html\">here<\/a> at the Daily Mail site are his work post civil war covering the American west and its indigenous people. In 1882 O&#8217;Sullivan finally succumbed to tuberculosis. He was only 42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitchener, August 4, 2013. My oldest daughter, Suzy, reminded me today about this famous Irish-American wet-plate photographer.\u00a0I was first introduced to O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s beautiful photographs decades ago in the 1970s series of Time-Life books on Photography.\u00a0 O&#8217;Sullivan practiced his art at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/timothy-osullivan-19th-century-photographer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45],"tags":[183,184,58,5,182],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","category-people","tag-american","tag-civil-war","tag-history","tag-photographer","tag-wet-plate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}