George N. Barnard

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George N. Barnard American, 1819 - 1902 Born in Connecticut, in 1843 George Barnard opened one of America's first daguerreotype studios in Oswego, New York, shortly after the invention of photography. Ten years later, he produced a daguerreotype of the Ames Mill fire in Oswego (now in the collection of George Eastman House, Rochester). Considered the first news photograph, this image was reproduced as an engraving and circulated widely, gaining Barnard the public's attention. In 1854 Barnard moved his studio to Syracuse, where he began to use the collodion process. By the time of the...

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