This is the first volume to explore the place of photography in archaeology: the
parallel histories of the two fields, their similarities and differences, and their current and future relationships. Since its earliest beginnings, photography has been innately archaeological. Its ability to freeze a moment of time gives photographic images an uncanny quality, whilst also allowing them to be a uniquely valuable recording tool. Photography has been a central element of archaeological method and practice since the late 19th century, and yet the apparent neutrality and passive objectivity of photographic images in the creation of archaeological knowledge is rarely interrogated. Meanwhile, archaeology's photographic character the significance of the visual, of documentation, and of intervention in temporal process remains even less explored. Digital technology has made photography both ubiquitous and ephemeral, questioning the status and authenticity of the image as material archive. Thus, despite their shared histories and present commonalities, these various intimate connections between archaeology and photography remain under-explored.
This volume will mark a watershed in the emergence of a new generation of studies of archaeological photography, bringing together new studies of archaeological photography from leading researchers in the field, both of historical photographs in archives, and of contemporary practice. It explores the legacy of historical photography on contemporary archaeological fieldwork and image-making, and takes stock of what the vision for the future relationship between archaeology and photography might be, through seven key themes time, materials, fieldwork, representation, documentation and the archive, and the profilmic.
Recenzijos
"A provocative collection that demonstrates how images, when we take the time to work with them, transform our understanding of time, movement, and the messy complexity of our involvement in the world around us. - Mark Edmonds, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, UK
This rich and intriguing collection charts the new intersectional field of visual archaeology across its key concepts of transition and duration, offering both substantive case studies and new methodologies. At stake is an understanding of photography as the mediation of everyday life in a time where nothing is quotidian. - Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, USA"
Daugiau informacijos
The book brings together an innovative new range of theoretical perspectives on the conceptual, practical, historical and contemporary connections between Archaeology and Photography.
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| Preface |
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1 Introduction: From archaeography to photology |
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2 The transformation of visual archaeology (part one) |
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3 `At any given moment': Duration in archaeology and photography |
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4 Exposing archaeology: Time in archaeological photographs |
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5 Parafictions: A polaroid archaeology |
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6 Archaeology, photography and poetics |
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7 Duration and representation in archaeology and photography |
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8 Photographing buildings |
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10 Photography, archaeology and visual repatriation |
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11 The aerial imagination |
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12 The transformation of visual archaeology (part two) |
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Lesley McFadyen is Lecturer in Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London. She has published on a broad range of topics relating to the archaeology of time, architecture and geography in relation to European prehistory. She is the editor of The Prehistory of France (CUP in preparation, edited with Cyril Marcigny).Dan Hicks MCIfA, FSA is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has published widely in Archaeology, Anthropology and Museum Studies, specialising in historical archaeology and the history of archaeology, and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology (CUP 2006, with Mary Beaudry) and The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (OUP 2010, with Mary Beaudry). With historian William Whyte, Dan is also General Editor of a six-volume series A Cultural History of Objects for Bloomsbury.
