Killing ground
Subtitle: photographs of the Civil War and the changing American landscape
By: John Huddleston.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: War and society -- United States; Historic sites -- United States -- Pictorial works; Landscape -- United States -- Pictorial works; Landscape -- Social aspects -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields -- Pictorial works; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: "In Killing Ground, John Huddleston embarks on a photographic odyssey through the modern-day landscape of the Civil War. He pairs historical images of the conflict from sixty-two battle sites across the nation - battlefield scenes, soldiers living and dead, prisoners of war, civilians, and slaves - with his own color photographs of the same locations a century and a half later, always taken at the same time of year, often at the same hour of the day.

Sometimes Huddleston's lens reveals a department store or fast-food restaurant carelessly built on hallowed ground; other images depict overgrown fields or well-manicured parks. When contrasted with their mid-nineteenth-century counterparts, these indelible images challenge the meaning of place in American culture and the evolving legacy of the Civil War in our national memory."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and index.
"This book has been brought to publication with the generous assistance of the Andrea Frank Foundation and Middlebury College"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Contents: A note to the reader; title: About the war; title: About the work; title: The plates: The battlefields; title: Appendixes: Brief descriptions of the battles; ownership of the battlefields; the historical photographers; title: Bibliography; title: Map and picture credits; title: Acknowledgments.