Pompeii Archive / William Wylie ; with an essay by Sarah Betzer and an afterword by Jock Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wylie, William, 1957- photographer.

Contributor:

Betzer, Sarah E., 1972- writer of essay.

Reynolds, Jock, writer of afterword.

Yale University. Art Gallery, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Pompeii (Extinct city)--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Pompeii (Extinct city).

Italy--Antiquities--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Italy.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : 78 black and white photographic images ; 29 x 34 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery, 2018.

Summary:

Handsomely illustrated and grand in scale, this book features images by American photographer William Wylie (b. 1957) taken over the course of five years. The photographs reanimate the ancient city of Pompeii, showing the ongoing cycles of deterioration and preservation that mark it as a living landscape. Wylie captures Pompeii's former grandeur, including its terracotta reliefs and wall paintings, while also drawing attention to the signs of an active excavation site, from plaster casts in glass cases to ceramic fragments in storage facilities. His elegant compositions and command of light and shadow highlight how natural phenomena, pollution, and human intervention are continually reshaping the city. People, however, are notably absent in the photographs. Wylie beautifully documents Pompeii's present by engaging with the tenuous relationship that the archaeological site maintains with the past. Exhibition: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA (Spring-Summer 2018).

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Pompeii: Photographs and Fragments held at the Yale University Art Gallery, March 2, 2018-August 19, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and list of plates.

ISBN:

9780300233667

0300233663

OCLC:

1030159130