Books: Explaining the Enigma that Was 19th-Century Photographer Timothy O'Sullivan
Above: O’Sullivan’s “A Harvest of Death,” Gettysburg, July 5-6, 1863
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Timothy O’Sullivan is one of photography’s most important names, but, surprisingly, not much is known about the man who created “Harvest of Death,” the image that has come to epitomize the Battle of Gettysburg and the carnage of the …