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Andrew Lytle's Baton Rouge
Photographs, 1863-1910
March 31 through June 28, 2008, in Main Gallery
A new book and exhibition entitled “Andrew D. Lytle’s Baton Rouge: Photographs, 1863-1910” showcase the life and work of photographer Andrew D. Lytle. The exhibition in Hill Memorial Library is based on Mark Martin’s newly released book on Lytle, published by LSU Press.
With his roving camera, Lytle captured the city’s history in all its facets, from formal portraits of leading citizens to hilarious group shots of amateur theatricals. The Federal occupation of Baton Rouge during the Civil War is chronicled, as well the annual spring Fireman’s parade. Lytle photographed the cadets at LSU, as well as inmates of the state penitentiary. The exhibition offers views of the evolving landscape of Louisiana’s capital city through more than sixty years. Lytle’s photographs are, according to Martin, “the only visual record of that period of the life and times of Baton Rouge and its people.” Martin is the Photographic Processing Archivist in the LSU Libraries’ Special Collections division.
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Andrew D. Lytle's Baton Rouge,
Photographs: 1863 - 1910
Spring 2008
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