About The Artist:
David Frances Barry
David Frances Barry arrived in Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, in 1875. He became an apprentice, business partner, and employee of frontier photographer Orlando Goff. Following the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 26, 1876, newspapers and magazines around the country were eager for news from the western Plains. Depictions of notable Sioux, such as Sitting Bull, greatly contributed to Barry’s success in the East as a freelance...
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About The Medium:
Photograph
An image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see.