Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys 1917-1918 tells of the healed scars of the Great War through our only remaining living witness: the fields of battle.
This special centennial exhibition showcases the incredible contemporary photographs by Michael St Maur Sheil depicting the battlefields of the Western Front where Americans fought.
The Western Front the American forces saw when they arrived and until they returned home included scenes of environmental degradation, obliterated villages, vast cemeteries, and continuing massive destruction. Much of the landscape of the Western Front looked like an uninhabited planet very foreign to them.
The battlefields once depicted great violence and horror are now home to beautiful landscapes as testaments of remembrance of World War I. This exhibition conveys actions and emotions of people who once fought on the battlefield.
Sheil, whose previous exhibitions have been seen by more than five million people, is a renowned photographer with work previously featured in National Geographic and Time magazine.
The exhibition, which is free to the public and found outdoors on the Museum’s Memorial Courtyard, is open until Aug. 20, 2017.
–Jane Geiger
