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

One of The New Yorker's best books of the year so far | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nature Book of 2024“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 FrazierA 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 late