Gettysburg
A Journey in Time
A forensic reconstruction of the Civil War's most famous photographs, matched back to the ground where they were taken.
Frassanito matched the famous photographs of Gettysburg to the ground where they were taken, using terrain, shadows and the position of rocks to establish where each camera stood and in what order the pictures were made. In doing so he showed that some bodies had been moved for effect. The book founded a method now standard in the study of war photography.
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Errol Morris
Frassanito was obsessed with Gettysburg and with reconnecting photographs of the Civil War to the circumstances under which they were taken. Through this obsessive quest, he reconnects the photographs to actual geographic places and reorders them to reflect the real sequence of events. It’s a deeply fascinating enterprise and I was inspired by his work.
Interview · September 2011
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