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PublisherReaktion Books, The Limited

ISBN-101861898703

ISBN-139781861898708

eBay Product ID (ePID)109098774

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePhotography and Archaeology

SubjectArchaeology, Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

AuthorFrederick N. Bohrer

Subject AreaSocial Science, Photography

SeriesExposures Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width7.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThis is a beautiful book containing many gorgeous photographs and it is a delight to handle. It covers a broad range of material and will widen the horizons of readers familiar with standard histories of photography. The reader will be encouraged to dig more deeply into the archaeological publications of the past to discover more photographic delights., Photography's unreliability may seem like a well-worn subject. Yet the long history of archaeology's attempts to bend photography to its will allows this book--part of Reaktion's excellently-produced Exposures series--to unearth numerous photographic curiosities and provide some fresh insights into an issue on which you might have thought there was little new to say., This brief but unique examination of the relationship between photography and archaeology addresses the many interesting facets of their long, intertwined history., This book explores the close ties between the rise of scientific archaeology and the spread of the new medium of photography from the mid-nineteenth century through to the present day. While many of us are aware that early archaeology's popularity was facilitated largely by means of photographic images, Bohrer demonstrates that, in their quest for the objective documentation of the past, archaeologists and scholars of antiquity were also directly involved in the invention of the new photographic technologies. This beautifully illustrated book will be welcomed by archaeologists and photography historians alike., Photography and Archaeology is another worthy entry in Reaktion Books' series on photography and history, culture, and social sciences. . . . [It] surveys the history of photography in archaeology, raising pointed questions about the past and our capacity to 'see,' 'know,' and represent it.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal778.99301

Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Image as Object One: Science, or Truth Two: Travel, or Presence Three: Meaning, or the Archive Four: Art, or Reframing References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

SynopsisPhotographs preserve the past, while archaeology unearths what has been preserved. Put together, photography and archaeology bring the past into the present, making its image available for a wide audience. In Photography and Archaeology , Frederick Bohrer examines some of history's most famous archaeological excavations, as well as lesser-known finds, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Bohrer examines the ways these sites have been represented in photographs and shows how the development of photography in the nineteenth century brought archaeology to the attention of the public. Uniting the histories of both photography and archaeology, Bohrer explains how what we know of the history of archaeology has been related to how it has been photographically represented and circulated in scholarly papers, personal accounts, scientific archives, museum catalogues, and other formats. He discusses archaeological examples and images by photographers including Maxime du Camp, Francis Frith, John Beazley Greene, and Ernst Herzfeld, as well as more contemporary photographers such as Aaron Levin, Roger Wood, and Marilyn Bridges. While photography seems to guarantee documentary objectivity, Bohrer argues that it also fundamentally alters the archaeological object, transforming it into a work of art. Beautifully illustrated with archaeological images, many published here for the first time, Photography and Archaeology will be of interest to anyone captivated by both photography's and archaeology's ongoing engagement with the past., In Photography and Archaeology , Frederick Bohrer examines some of history's most famous archaeological excavations, as well as lesser-known and previously unpublished finds, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and the ways these sites have been represented in photographs. Bohrer shows how the development of photography in the nineteenth century made archaeology available to a much wider audience, and he discusses how these images revealed the material traces of the past, as well as their meaning and use today., In Photography and Archaeology, Frederick Bohrer examines some of history's most famous archaeological excavations, as well as lesser-known and previously unpublished finds, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and the ways these sites have been represented in photographs. Bohrer shows how the development of photography in the nineteenth century made archaeology available to a much wider audience, and he discusses how these images revealed the material traces of the past, as well as their meaning and use today.

LC Classification NumberTR775