Photographer H. Casser-Jayne publishes first serious volume of photographs of the Antietam Battlefield since the Civil War.
November 19, 2005 (Press Release) --
Attn: BOOK EDITORS, REVIEWERS, LIBRARIANS, CIVIL WAR BUFFS
For Immediate Release
Contact: H. Casser-Jayne
Email: antietam@hcjstudio.com
www.hcjstudio.com
Phone: 304.283.1163
SAVAGE FIELDS OF ANTIETAM CAPTURED BY FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER
Sharpsburg, Md. – Ever since Civil War photographer Matthew Brady recorded the Battle of Antietam, photographers have struggled to interpret the bloodiest single day in American military history. In this first serious volume of photographs to be published on the Battle of Antietam since the Civil War, H. Casser-Jayne has done so brilliantly in a small but powerful volume, Still Life, images of Antietam. Antietam National Battlefield Superintendent John
Howard calls the work “a new monument to those who fought and to those who help us remember.”
Featuring 70 duotone images and 70 Civil War era quotes, this striking 152-page book captures the spirit that inhabits the Maryland battlefield. Her portraits of living historians bring heart to history allowing the viewer to put faces with the people. With her adept camera ability, Ms. Casser-Jane defines the contradiction of America’s best-preserved battlefield in evocative, often- poignant landscapes that reveal the awkward beauty in the savagery of the killing fields.
“I was stunned upon viewing the photographs that are this book,’ John Howard says in the books’ introduction. “They made me, forced me, to look in an unfamiliar way at that, which I look at every day. The view is that of an artist’s eye. Emotional? Yes!”
The $32.95 book also features a battle overview by eminent historian Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, President of Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF).
H. Casser-Jayne has been a working artist for two decades. A student of The New School in New York, she credits famed Magnum photographer Eli Reed, whom she met on assignment in El Salvador, for the courage to believe in her vision. Respected photojournalist, Benita Keller, a longtime mentor of Ms. Casser-Jayne’s, calls the work “stunning!”
The idea of creating a photographic essay of the Antietam battle began several years ago after Ms. Casser-Jayne discovered a Civil War bullet on her farm six miles across the Potomac River from the battlefield. Photographs from her book are currently on exhibition through the Scarborough Society at the Scarborough Library at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, part of a scheduled worldwide tour of her work.
STILL LIFE, images of Antietam is the first of three volumes planned by Ms. Casser-Jayne. She is currently at work on the second volume, which has been commissioned by the Gettysburg National Military Park. The third volume will feature the Shenandoah Valley campaign.
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For Immediate Release
Contact: H. Casser-Jayne
Email: antietam@hcjstudio.com
www.hcjstudio.com
Phone: 304.283.1163
SAVAGE FIELDS OF ANTIETAM CAPTURED BY FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER
Sharpsburg, Md. – Ever since Civil War photographer Matthew Brady recorded the Battle of Antietam, photographers have struggled to interpret the bloodiest single day in American military history. In this first serious volume of photographs to be published on the Battle of Antietam since the Civil War, H. Casser-Jayne has done so brilliantly in a small but powerful volume, Still Life, images of Antietam. Antietam National Battlefield Superintendent John
Howard calls the work “a new monument to those who fought and to those who help us remember.”
Featuring 70 duotone images and 70 Civil War era quotes, this striking 152-page book captures the spirit that inhabits the Maryland battlefield. Her portraits of living historians bring heart to history allowing the viewer to put faces with the people. With her adept camera ability, Ms. Casser-Jane defines the contradiction of America’s best-preserved battlefield in evocative, often- poignant landscapes that reveal the awkward beauty in the savagery of the killing fields.
“I was stunned upon viewing the photographs that are this book,’ John Howard says in the books’ introduction. “They made me, forced me, to look in an unfamiliar way at that, which I look at every day. The view is that of an artist’s eye. Emotional? Yes!”
The $32.95 book also features a battle overview by eminent historian Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, President of Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF).
H. Casser-Jayne has been a working artist for two decades. A student of The New School in New York, she credits famed Magnum photographer Eli Reed, whom she met on assignment in El Salvador, for the courage to believe in her vision. Respected photojournalist, Benita Keller, a longtime mentor of Ms. Casser-Jayne’s, calls the work “stunning!”
The idea of creating a photographic essay of the Antietam battle began several years ago after Ms. Casser-Jayne discovered a Civil War bullet on her farm six miles across the Potomac River from the battlefield. Photographs from her book are currently on exhibition through the Scarborough Society at the Scarborough Library at Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV, part of a scheduled worldwide tour of her work.
STILL LIFE, images of Antietam is the first of three volumes planned by Ms. Casser-Jayne. She is currently at work on the second volume, which has been commissioned by the Gettysburg National Military Park. The third volume will feature the Shenandoah Valley campaign.
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