Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer by Sullivan, Robert
Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer by Sullivan, Robert

Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer

"Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I've read about...
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Author: Robert Sullivan
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer by Sullivan, Robert

Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer

$49.83
Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer by Sullivan, Robert

Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer

$49.83
Author: Robert Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I've read about America . . . in many, many years." --Corey Seymour, Vogue (a best book of 2024)

"Extraordinary . . . A transformative experience for the reader." --Lucy Sante

"A large-hearted, wide-angled book . . . I couldn't put it down." --Ian Frazier

A personal exploration of the American West and the work of one of America's greatest photographers.

Timothy O'Sullivan is America's most famous war photographer. You know his work even if you don't know his name: A Harvest of Death, taken at Gettysburg, is an icon of the Civil War. He was also among the first photographers to elevate what was then a trade to the status of fine art. The images of the American West he made after the war, while traveling with the surveys led by Clarence King and George Wheeler, display a prescient awareness of what photography would become; years later, Ansel Adams would declare his work "surrealistic and disturbing."

At the same time, we know very little about O'Sullivan himself. Nor do we know--really know--much more about the landscapes he captured. Robert Sullivan's Double Exposure sets off in pursuit of these two enigmas. This book documents the author's own road trip across the West in search of the places, many long forgotten or paved over, that O'Sullivan pictured. It also stages a reckoning with how the changes wrought on the land were already under way in the 1860s and '70s, and how these changes were a continuation of the Civil War by other means. Sullivan, known for his probing investigations of place in the pages of The New Yorker and books like Rats and My American Revolution, has produced a work that, like O'Sullivan's magisterial photos of geysers and hot springs, exposes a fissure in the American landscape itself.

Author: Robert Sullivan
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.12w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250371751

About the Author
Robert Sullivan is the author of numerous books, including Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, and My American Revolution. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, A Public Space, and Vogue. He was born in New York City, worked for many years in Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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