American
(St. Louis, Missouri; New York, New York)
A reporter and newspaper editor, Rockwood later became a celebrity photographer, making many improvements in the tools of his trade. He began professional life as a newspaper writer in his home town of Troy, New York. In 1857 he became managing editor of that city’s Daily Post. His tenure was brief. In the latter months of 1857, he is in the St. Louis, Missouri, managing a daguerreotypist studio. Early in George Rookwood’s career, his landscape photography "had no rival" from the mid 1860s to the mid 1870s. He mastered landscape work as a field photographer during the American Civil War, working out of a mobile field van.
