Gettysburg Monuments

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.