Hanging Rock, Echo City
1868/69
Medium
Albumen print, pl. XVII from the album "Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery" (1870)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 15.2 × 20.4 cm (6 × 8 1/16 in.); Album page: 23.2 × 30.3 cm (9 3/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236171
Art Historical Context
**Hanging Rock, Echo** (1868/69) by Andrew Joseph Russell captures the rugged majesty of the American West during a transformative era. As a pioneering photographer who documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad Russell ventured into the Rocky Mountains to record stunning natural formations like this towering rock overhang in Echo City, Utah. Plate XVII from his self-published album *Sun Pictures Rocky Mountain Scenery*1870), it reflects the mid-19th-century push westward, blending exploration with emerging visual technology. This albumen print exemplifies 19th-century photogra...
About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell · 1830–1902
Andrew Joseph Russell (1829–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose work captured the raw drama of the Civil War and the monumental engineering of the transcontinental railroad. Born on March 20, 1829, in Walpole, New Hampshire, to Joseph Russell and Harriet Robinson, he grew up in Nunda, New York, where he developed an early passion for painting, creating portraits, landscapes, and eve...