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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

1974

Lee Friedlander

(American, b. 1934)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 19.1 x 28.6 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.); Paper: 27.9 x 35.3 cm (11 x 13 7/8 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Museum members in 1989 1989.424
Copyright
© 1978 Lee Friedlander
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Although this photograph belongs to Friedlander’s American monuments series, the monuments themselves are nearly obscured by a web of flowering branches. Gettysburg, site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, is here tranquil and serene in Friedlander’s unconventional framing of his subject. Half-hidden behind their curtain of blossoms, these monuments no longer memorialize the violence of war but meld quietly into the peaceful landscape.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

1974

Lee Friedlander

(American, b. 1934)
America

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