PHOTOGRAPHER BIOGRAPHY: David Muench (born June 25, 1936 in Santa Barbara. California) is a landscape and nature photographer known for portraying the American western landscape. He is the primary photographer for more than 50 books and his work appears in many magazines, posters, and private collections. Muench is the son of Josef Muench, another landscape photographer. A freelance photographer since the 1950s, Muench's formal schooling includes the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Art Center Scool of Design in Los Angeles. In 1975, David Muench was commissioned to photograph 33 large murals on the Lewis and Clark Expedition for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Lous, Missouri.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GETTYSBURG N.M.P. The Gettysburg Battlefield was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought July 1?3, 1863, in and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the county seat of Adams County, which had approximately 2,400 residents at the time. It is now the site of two Federally owned and administered areas: Gettysburg National Military Park and the Gettysburg National Cemetery.