![[Fortifications Near Charleston, South Carolina]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/original/DP254786.jpg)
[Fortifications Near Charleston, South Carolina]
1861 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Image: 15 × 20.6 cm (5 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Mount: 23.2 × 27.1 cm (9 1/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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George S. Cook
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WA-00081064
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11
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12
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- Primary mediumWikidata + Duplicate Merge· 92%✓
- Birth yearWikidata + Duplicate Merge· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Duplicate Merge· 92%✓
- Death yearWikidata + Duplicate Merge· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Duplicate Merge· 88%✓
- Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
- LocationWikidata· 80%
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- NgaTier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%
About
Why this artist matters now
George Smith Cook was an early American photographer known as a pioneer in the development of the field. Primarily a studio portrait photographer, he is the first to have taken a photograph of combat during a war: he captured images in 1863 of Union ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie in South Carolina during the Civil War.
Source: Nga · Trust score: 85% · Updated 9d ago
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