Egypt
Reaktion Books
Not exactly Egyptology, but potentially of some interest to some readers.
- Brooklyn Museum Egypt Lantern Slides
Egypt Then and Now (Ben Morales-Correa) In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could be projected, in magnified form, onto a surface using a “magic...
- Exhibition: Global Views: 19th-century Travel Photographs
http://tinyurl.com/222rpz (princeton.edu)"In the second half of the 19th century, professional photographic firms arose in the major cities of Western Europe, as well as in more remote travel destinations such as Greece, Egypt, India, Asia and the Middle...
- Added Exhibition: Photography And Egyptology
http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-07-14-ancientegypt.htmA 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...
- Gerster's Aerial Photography
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/atoz/article_916727.phpA new book about Georg Gerster's aerial photography has been published. Although Gester's work is global, he started out in Egypt and Nubia: "In Gerster's recent book, The Past...
- Generating Cash For The Sca
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/721/eg11.htm A new company has been established in Egypt to combat Egypt's inability to pay for conservation, restoration and excavation programmes: "The company is designed to generate revenue for the Supreme Council...
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 are we looking at in an archaeological photograph? Archaeological photography is often largely deserted, to be scanned with a forensic gaze, towards finding evidence of what once took place. At the same time, photographs of excavated sites and artefacts have revealed stunning ancient works, shot as works of art. 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Bohrer examines some of history’s most famous archaeological excavations, as well as lesser-known and previously unpublished finds, from the Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and the ways these sites have been represented in photographs.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.
Frederick N. Bohrer is Professor of Art at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland, and author of Orientalism and Visual Culture: Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-century Europe (2003)
- Brooklyn Museum Egypt Lantern Slides
Egypt Then and Now (Ben Morales-Correa) In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could be projected, in magnified form, onto a surface using a “magic...
- Exhibition: Global Views: 19th-century Travel Photographs
http://tinyurl.com/222rpz (princeton.edu)"In the second half of the 19th century, professional photographic firms arose in the major cities of Western Europe, as well as in more remote travel destinations such as Greece, Egypt, India, Asia and the Middle...
- Added Exhibition: Photography And Egyptology
http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-07-14-ancientegypt.htmA 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...
- Gerster's Aerial Photography
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/atoz/article_916727.phpA new book about Georg Gerster's aerial photography has been published. Although Gester's work is global, he started out in Egypt and Nubia: "In Gerster's recent book, The Past...
- Generating Cash For The Sca
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/721/eg11.htm A new company has been established in Egypt to combat Egypt's inability to pay for conservation, restoration and excavation programmes: "The company is designed to generate revenue for the Supreme Council...