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Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

By Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)

In July, 1863.

The general story outline is all about the photographs taken by Gardner and Timothy O’Sullivan at the Gettysburg battlefield in July 1863. The controversy surrounding the photographs that it was not the original stage of the wounded soldier that Gardner and his assistance fabricated and manipulated the home of the rebel sharpshooter to suit the photographic image taken, and the differences in the appearance of the photographs taken three days after the battle. The one taken in Devil’s den and the shots taken in the home of a rebel sharpshooter.<!--more-->

Several shots of photographs were taken by Gardner of the dead soldier, “ Geographic features place four of the six photographs at the southern slope of Devil’s Den (top) and two at what Gardner called the “ sharpshooter’s Den”. The series of photographs showing the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg depicts historically the photographic image of the Civil War at Gettysburg in his time.

The photographic work of Gardner was categorized of shots taken of the wounded soldier three days of the battlefield at Gettysburg and the stage manage Home of a Rebel sharpshooter. The photographic work was proven influential in defining the image of the Civil War for many Americans in his era.

The photographic work of Gardner was unusual and unique because it was able to illustrate the image of the home of a Rebel sharpshooter, built up between two hugs rocks, a stone wall, from the crevices, wounded and laying waste on the Ground with dismounted guns, wrecked caissons, and the debris of a broken army.

The photographic work of Gardner was able to define the image of the civil war in its era; it showed vividly the photographs of the home of a rebel sharpshooter, lying down wounded upon his blanket to await death, the shots taken in the battlefield of Gettysburg.

The people of today believe that the photographic work of Gardner on the home of a rebel sharpshooter was stage managed. They believe the dead wounded confederate soldier corpse and weapons was moved from the initial battlefield ground by Gardner to this place he called the home of a rebel sharpshooter. People like “Fredrick Ray, the art director of the civil war times, noticed that two of the photographs, taken in different locations on the battlefield appeared to show the same corpse”. Ray argues that the corpse body was moved forty yards to a rocky niche looking at the diagram above, the one below the home of a rebel sharpshooter”. “And that although Gardner identified the soldier as a sharpshooter, that the weapon beside him was not a sharpshooter’s Rifle. That it was probably a prop, placed there by Gardner.”

Despite the view of Fredrick ray and others that Gardner’s  work of photographing the battlefield of Gettysburg were stage managed and manipulated, the work by Gardner and Timothy still remain unique and outstanding to many who sees such a magnificent photographer in the 1800’s. If proper study is not conducted hardly you can see if the work was actually fabricated.

The work of Gardner the “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter” was comparable to the work of Timothy O’Sullivan “A Harvest of Death” because the both of them work together in taking shots of the confederate wounded soldiers in the battlefield of Gettysburg, looking at both work critically they look similar in terms of the positioning of the dead soldiers, the imagery, the style, and having the same features as a photographers.

The photographic style of Gardner, the positioning for a good dramatic image for a Photograph makes this work significant for future generations, they should be aware that the shots taken by Gardner of the Home of a Rebel sharpshooter makes him influential amongst his peers in defining the image of the civil war.

The work as a whole is based on the photographic image work of Gardner on the “Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter” at the Battlefield of Gettysburg, and how it was criticized by his critics (Fredrick Ray) that the photograph of the wounded confederate soldier in the Devil’s taken by Gardner was similar to the wounded soldier in the “Home of the Rebel Sharpshooter” that it was stage managed and a fabricated piece of work.

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Cited Work:
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	<li><a href="http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/a_sharpshooters_last_sleep">http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/a_sharpshooters_last_sleep</a>.</li>
	<li><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwpcam/cwcam3c.html">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwpcam/cwcam3c.html</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/7milVol/plate41g.html">http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/7milVol/plate41g.html</a></li>
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