Egypt
- New Book: Photography And Archaeology
Reaktion Books Not exactly Egyptology, but potentially of some interest to some readers. Photography and Archaeology Frederick N. Bohrer Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what...
- Visualising Giza Project
Visualising Giza (Paulalorla) Many thanks to Paula for sending me a link to her website. She has taken images of Giza and displayed them so that the viewer is taken through the history both of people's visions of Giza and through the history of image...
- Exhibition: Taking A Shot At Archaeology
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A photography exhibition highlighting more than a century of archaeological cooperation between Europe and Egypt was inaugurated last Thursday at the Egyptian Museum. Nevine El-Aref went along From the beginning of the...
- Photography At The Fitzwilliam Museum (uk)
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page This will have only a very localized relevance to people visiting musums in the U.K., but I thought it might be of use to some. I recently emailed the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (U.K.) to ask whether they permitted photography...
- History From On High
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1937151,00.html A new exhibition in London, UK, looks at some of our more admirable achievements from the air in an exhibition entitled The Past From Above, at the British Museum from November 16 2006 to February...
Egypt
ADDED Exhibition: Photography and Egyptology
http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-07-14-ancientegypt.htm
A long article featuring the role of photography in the long history of Egyptology and other heritage projects: "War, politics, religious movements and natural disasters — all key players in the formation of human history. Now, Kathleen Stewart Howe has just added one more chief element to the list, one that most people would never consider as being pivotal in history: photography. Howe, the Sarah Rempel & Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director of the Museum of Art and professor of art history at Pomona College, has found that photography played a significant role in shaping archeology, especially Egyptology, from its very beginnings. . . . The exhibit, which will run until May 1, features 19th century photographs by Du Camp, Teynard, Greene, and others, such as Joseph Philibert, a pioneer Daguerreotypist. These photographs transport the viewer back to ancient Greece and Egypt. They provide a glimpse into the life of an archeologist working on some of the oldest monuments and sites around the Mediterranean, all through the lens of a camera."
See the above page for the rest of this fascinating feature.
- New Book: Photography And Archaeology
Reaktion Books Not exactly Egyptology, but potentially of some interest to some readers. Photography and Archaeology Frederick N. Bohrer Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what...
- Visualising Giza Project
Visualising Giza (Paulalorla) Many thanks to Paula for sending me a link to her website. She has taken images of Giza and displayed them so that the viewer is taken through the history both of people's visions of Giza and through the history of image...
- Exhibition: Taking A Shot At Archaeology
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A photography exhibition highlighting more than a century of archaeological cooperation between Europe and Egypt was inaugurated last Thursday at the Egyptian Museum. Nevine El-Aref went along From the beginning of the...
- Photography At The Fitzwilliam Museum (uk)
Fitzwilliam Museum Home Page This will have only a very localized relevance to people visiting musums in the U.K., but I thought it might be of use to some. I recently emailed the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (U.K.) to ask whether they permitted photography...
- History From On High
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1937151,00.html A new exhibition in London, UK, looks at some of our more admirable achievements from the air in an exhibition entitled The Past From Above, at the British Museum from November 16 2006 to February...