<p align="center">The White house By O’Sullivan</p>
I think that Timothy O’sullivan’s Photo “The White house” Should be preserved for future generations due to the Reminder and lesson it can serve future generations about life in the past. The Reminder is that civilizations come and go but future generations can learn how to weave their habitats in to the natural surroundings and still be able effective live.<!--more-->

The evolution of photography in the 1800’s shows the exponential improvements in film print technology, that of which Timothy O’Sullivan and his peers participated in. Photography was used to capture the “real world” in the most “real” manner, just as the paintings of the time attempted to do. O’sullivan’s mentor, Matthew Brady, characterized the early era of photography through representing the darker parts of human society by capturing gruesome war photo’s of the civil war. Other artists were using photography as a way to capture moments between peoples interaction and to prove that some event happened.

Timothy O’sullivan’s photography “The White House” stands out amongst other photos of this era, because of the photos subject and manner in which the shot is captured; as well as the camera used. The photo is of a Cliffside from the ground, and in the cliff is an ancient Indian dwelling that is 50 feet up the side of the cliff (library of congress). The shot is taken from quite a distance away but it allows for the pueblo to be seen with the intimidating cliff that is right above it. This photo also is unusual because it is to be considered the beginning of landscape photography in an “unartful artfully taken” manner; The image is understood for what it is, and has no unmistakable imagery (Woodward). O’sullivan’s photograph is also important because the ability to own a camera in his era was extremely difficult. His ownership gave him the ability to take the photographs for the United States geological survey in order to convince people to move out west.

During his time all of his photographs were for either the army when he was working under Brady or for the expedition of west of the 100<sup>th</sup> meridian for the USGS, making them desired photographs for the government for various reasons.

Today Timothy O’sullivan’s collections have been housed in museums all around the world. The most notable of museums is the Getty art museum (Getty).

I choose this photo out of O’sullivan’s collection because it reminded me of a part in the Aldous Huxley novel, Brave<em> New World</em>. In the book the main characters Bernard and Lenina are sent to the south west United States to visit “the land of the savages” (Huxley). The savages are considered people who live outside of the highly technological dystopia with no contact or understanding of their advanced way of life. The particular savages Bernard and lenina are visiting live up the side of a cliff in a pueblo which is described to be very similar of that in which this photo is showing. The unique ability of these pueblos to hold upwards to 700 people per house shows that they were able to effective house large amounts of people in their native inhospitable environment (Cooper).

Another photo of the same time period is one found in the Fiero book by Matthew Brady (Fiero figure 30.9). Brady’s photo depicts a dead confederate soldier lying on the ground covered in blood with his gun by his side. Brady’s photo differs from “The White House” because it is of a shockingly real event up close and in person. When shared with others its strikes a mood of disgust of war in the viewer. During this time period, Brady’s photograph would have had a very powerful effect on people since imagery like this was not as prevalent as today. O’sullivan’s photo is a much more artful and intellectual photo; with the designs in the face of the cliff and with the more sepia tone then the black and white Brady photo. O’sullivan’s camera seems to of been more advanced than the one Brady used during the civil war when O’Sullivan was his assistant.

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Future generations should take reverence to Photo of “The White House” by O’Sullivan. It is a reminder that civilizations come and go but the environment in which these civilizations dwell in will remain long after the people are gone from it. They will also gain appreciation from a lost form a media, since everything in the future is going to be digitalized and analogue photography will become obsolete.

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Cooper, Rob. "How the Wild West REALLY Looked: Gorgeous Sepia-tinted Pictures Show the Landscape as It Was Charted for the Very First Time." <em>Mail Online</em>. Daily Mail, 25 May 2012. Web. 05 Nov. 2012. &lt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149899/The-American-West-youve-seen-Amazing-19th-century-pictures-landscape-chartered-time.html&gt;.

This is the collection of photos I browsed through to find the O’sullivan photo I liked most. They also gave a really good description of his style.

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Sullivan, Timothy. <em>Timothy H. O'Sullivan (Getty Museum)</em>. Digital image. <em>Timothy H. O'Sullivan (Getty Museum)</em>. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Nov. 2012. <a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1928">http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1928</a>

I reference this article because it shows that it is still relevant today.

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Woodward, Robert. "Western Development." <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>. N.p., 30 Mar. 2010. Web. 5 Nov. 2012

Woodward has very good article on O’sullivans photography and I got a better understanding of how his work was accepted  in his time.

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O'sullivan, Timothy. <em>The White House</em>. Digital image. <em>Library of Congress</em>. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Nov. 2012