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Gettysburg Monuments

A Picture Album

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Publisher Description

Gettysburg Monuments: A Picture Album features evocative photographs of over seventy major sculptural monuments on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. Each photograph is accompanied by a brief description of the monument’s significance, and a link to its physical location. The book includes a moving account by preeminent Civil War historian James M. McPherson, relating both his personal history at Gettysburg Military Park, and the battle’s larger significance in the American Civil War and subsequent world history. A second essay, by longtime Park Ranger and Historian Eric Campbell, details the unique history of the Gettysburg Military Park, and explains why it has far more monuments than any other battlefield in the world. Working in winter light, photographer Ellen Land-Weber focused on monuments with particular emotional appeal, bringing to life the historic events they commemorate. Her exceptional photographs and accompanying text tell the stories of the monuments, while also revealing the elegiac quality of the extensive battlefield.


About the author:

Ellen Land-Weber is a photographer and emeritus professor of art at Humboldt State University where she taught photography and digital imaging for close to 30 years. Her work has been featured in solo or group exhibitions since 1968, and her photographs are in the permanent collections of museums in the United States and abroad. Her photographic work has appeared in many books and other photography publications. She is the author of The Passionate Collector, and To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2013
February 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
151
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ellen Land-Weber
SELLER
Ellen Land-Weber
SIZE
169.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Ooga Ooum ,

Gettysburg

I have so enjoyed Ellen Land-Webers Gettysburg Monuments. Having spent my childhood in PA and with a cousin who lived there, I remember the joy of the climbing the observation towers and looking at the many status. My family, as reformed Southerners, did too. They appreciated the Confederate willingness to fight and die for a way of life that they believed in - even if obscene by modern democratic standards.

The format of the pictorial is excellent. First, the overview by the historian McPherson as "America's Stalingrad." He not only detailed the battle event-by-event, but lent context of it to the Civil War and subsequent American history. Second, Eric Campbell chronicled the establishment and development of Gettysburg as a national military park. Very interesting were the politics of reconciliation, ie. how to share the glory of the fight with the former Confederacy. Where the opposing monument were to be placed in relation to those of the other side was of particular interest.

The highlight of the book was Land-Weber's photographs. Her subject monuments are both dramatic and artistic. They personalized the appearance and ordeals of the foot soldiers while capturing the special qualities of heroic leaders. One really gets the richness of this national park after examining her pictures.

The inclusion of the Gettysburg Address was like a closing prayer!

I regret this book as of yet is not available in hard copy form. I would share it with those of us that have experienced the Gettysburg National Military Park as well as other of my friends valuing American History. Also, it would serve as a great take home souvenir for anyone visiting Gettysburg.

Geomonier ,

Gettysburg Monuments

Professor Ellen Land-Weber has exercised her considerable technical skills in the photographic arts as well as her sensitivity to the human element in history to the battlefields of Gettysburg. The resulting selection of images, seventy-seven of a possible one thousand, three hundred, twenty eighty, are gathered in a charming portrait of America's most revered and most frequently visited National Park. The collection is augmented by essays by Pulitzer Prize winning author, James McPherson and Eric Campbell, retired park ranger and historian.

Professor Land-Weber has emphasized the reconciliatory and healing aspect of the park and its monuments, as well as its haunting beauty. I can think of no better preparation for a first visit to the Gettysburg National Military Park than reading this pictorial summary of a nations attempt to honor its Heroes.

R. A. Rasmussen Ph. D. Biologist and lover of beautiful images

Wutzhappn ,

Extraordinary!!!

Do not hesitate to download this poignant and special book about the Gettysburg monuments. The photographs are works of art and depict the monuments against a wintertime backdrop, which lends a new soulfulness to the subjects and almost brings the sentinel sculptures to life!!! The book is graphically pleasing, with informative info about the monuments rarely found, plus interactive features. There are also two beautifully written essays. Anybody who has an appreciation of the Gettysburg Military Park and the battlefield should add this extraordinary book to their collection.

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